{"id":20451,"date":"2013-06-21T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T01:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=20451"},"modified":"2013-06-21T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T01:35:12","slug":"pardon-snowden-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/21\/pardon-snowden-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon Snowden Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, Antiwar.com Editorial Director Justin Raimondo published this letter:<\/em> <\/p>\n

Dear Friend of Antiwar.com,<\/p>\n

When darkness begins to fall, some curse the shadows \u2013 and others turn on the lights.<\/p>\n

One man, a 29-year-old former spook and apparent libertarian, has stepped forward to reveal the truth about what our government is doing \u2013 and rescue our liberties from the warlords of Washington. One man had the courage to step forward and speak truth to power: in some dictionaries, that\u2019s called “narcissism.” In mine, it\u2019s called bravery.<\/p>\n

Americans must send a message to Edward Snowden, one that will also be immediately noted and understood by our nervous rulers: Ed, we\u2019ve got your back!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why it\u2019s so vitally important for you to sign the White House petition to pardon Snowden. It\u2019s the least we can do for a man who has sacrificed everything so that Americans might be given one last chance wake up and restore the Constitution. The petition — started by an anonymous person from Rochester, New York, with the initials “P.M.” — immediately took off, with over 50,000 in the first 48 hours, but it is now stuck at around 90,000 \u2013 with until July 9th to reach a total of 100,000, and thus earn an official White House response.<\/p>\n

Topping 100,000 \u2013 even after they raised the threshold from 25,000 \u2013 would score a huge public relations coup for the cause of civil liberties and force the White House to acknowledge the popularity of Snowden\u2019s cause.<\/p>\n

The success of the petition will also have a cascading effect on legislation \u2013 such as Sen. Rand Paul\u2019s “Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013” \u2013 designed to rein in Big Brother.<\/p>\n

Please sign the petition now \u2013 every signature counts!<\/p>\n

In peace and liberty,<\/p>\n

Justin Raimondo
\nEditorial Director
\nAntiwar.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, Antiwar.com Editorial Director Justin Raimondo published this letter: Dear Friend of Antiwar.com, When darkness begins to fall, some curse the shadows \u2013 and others turn on the lights. One man, a 29-year-old former spook and apparent libertarian, has stepped forward to reveal the truth about what our government is doing \u2013 and rescue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,99,6,171,131,63],"tags":[632,305,633],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-cia","category-civil-liberties","category-dictatorship","category-obama","category-war-at-home","tag-edward-snowden","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-whistleblowers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20454,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions\/20454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20451"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}