Wednesday, June 04, 2014

"German Prosecutor to Probe U.S. Spies for Bugging Merkel's Phone."-Reuters.

The Obama administration feels "rage" toward Edward Snowden for revealing this. It has hurt American influence. It has damaged U.S. relations with our ally-targets. Secretary of State John Kerry has called Snowden a "traitor" and "coward" and gets enraged whenever U.S. ally-targets joke with him about the bugging. The Obamas breezy philosophy of spying is encapsulated in this remark, uttered by Eric Schmidt, CEO of ally-target Google:

"If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."

The Obamas ought to apply their philosophy of spying to...themselves. They didn't want anyone to know about the spying ergo they shouldn't have been doing it in the first place.

No ergo. The Obamas can't get through their thick heads why Germany is pissed at them, not at Snowden. Let's play "Let's say:"  Let's say Edward Snowden revealed the following state secret, "Die Amerikaner sind nicht nervt Angela Merkels Handy!"  In that event the Germans wouldn't be pissed at Snowden or the Obamas. No bug the Handy, no piss (Google, if you have fucked up that German translation, I will murder you.). See, it is what the Obamas did, not what Snowden told the world, that has the Germans pissed. The Obamas don't get that. The ergo doesn't apply to them.

In the event, of course, the Obamas had bugged the personal handy of the German chancellor and Snowden outed them. Now the Obamas have their tit in einem Klingel and want to murder Snowden. The Obamas ought to "man up," in Kerry's words, and explain this to the German people, as Kerry said Snowden should do to the American people. The Obamas haven't, they won't, they can't--there is no explanation--,they gutted restrictions on NSA, and now German prosecutors are going after them. Oh well. Sucks to be the Obamas. Bitches.