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       Anything you say
       By: the lost minion Date: August 24, 2018, 5:19 am
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       Anything you say over the Internet may be used against you. I
       just stumbled on an article (who said you can't find anything
       interesting on italki?) about a woman who leaked information on
       how Russians tried to influence the American elections*.
       *The leaked document, believed to have been passed to news
       website The Intercept, alleged that Moscow's military
       intelligence services had attempted cyber-attacks on at least
       one US voting software supplier days before the 2016 US
       presidential election.
       It also accused Russia of sending phishing emails to more than
       100 local election officials.
       However, there was no suggestion in the document that the
       hackers were successful.
       The files were apparently marked for declassification not before
       May 2042
  HTML http://time.com/5376375/reality-winner-sentence-5-years-leaking/
       Do you, SHL, see what I see here?:
       [quote]
       Prosecutors also used Winner’s own words against her, including
       a Facebook chat in which Winner once wrote to her sister: “Look,
       I only say I hate America like 3 times a day.”
       Winner’s social media postings also included some scathing
       opinions on President Donald Trump. Three months before her
       arrest, Winner posted on Facebook that climate change was a more
       important issue than health care “since not poisoning an entire
       population seems to be more in line with ‘health’ care, and not
       the disease care system that people voted for a soulless ginger
       orangutan to ‘fix.'”
       [/quote]
       Watch out ;D
       Oh, and watch how you're all turning into self-censoring cowards
       scared of their own thoughts. This is what will be happening.
       #Post#: 5451--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Anything you say
       By: Truman Overby Date: August 24, 2018, 6:21 am
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       [quote author=the Frog Lady link=topic=415.msg5450#msg5450
       date=1535105969]
       Anything you say over the Internet may be used against you. I
       just stumbled on an article (who said you can't find anything
       interesting on italki?) about a woman who leaked information on
       how Russians tried to influence the American elections*.
       *[i]The leaked document, believed to have been passed to news
       website The Intercept, alleged that Moscow's military
       intelligence services had attempted cyber-attacks on at least
       one US voting software supplier days before the 2016 US
       presidential election.
       [/quote]
       Watch out ;D
       Oh, and watch how you're all turning into self-censoring cowards
       scared of their own thoughts. This is what will be happening.
       [/quote]
       If I remember correctly, Froggy, this woman was an employee of a
       defense contractor. So she was bound by secrecy laws. By the
       way, what a winner of a name. What were her parents thinking.
       #Post#: 5452--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Anything you say
       By: the lost minion Date: August 24, 2018, 6:53 am
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       [quote author=Truman Overby link=topic=415.msg5451#msg5451
       date=1535109698]
       If I remember correctly, Froggy, this woman was an employee of a
       defense contractor. So she was bound by secrecy laws. By the
       way, what a winner of a name. What were her parents thinking.
       [/quote]
       No, of course she was, I'm not questioning that. She leaked a
       classified document, sure. My point is that her private
       conversations with her sister were not only analyzed (which
       could be even understandable - to check if she hadn't been up to
       something more serious etc.), but also taken out of context,
       dragged out and publicly cited, to prove what an ungrateful
       government-outsourcer employee she is. Now this is sweet.
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvgL_O4g5S8
       #Post#: 5455--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Anything you say
       By: Truman Overby Date: August 24, 2018, 8:06 am
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       [quote author=the Frog Lady link=topic=415.msg5452#msg5452
       date=1535111583]
       No, of course she was, I'm not questioning that. She leaked a
       classified document, sure. My point is that her private
       conversations with her sister were not only analyzed (which
       could be even understandable - to check if she hadn't been up to
       something more serious etc.), but also taken out of context,
       dragged out and publicly cited, to prove what an ungrateful
       government-outsourcer employee she is. Now this is sweet.
       [/quote]
       When you play on that level - federal government - you have to
       expect that everything that you've ever said will be used
       against you. That's the way the game has always been played. The
       stakes are high. Everything is under scrutiny.
       #Post#: 5456--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Anything you say
       By: SHL Date: August 24, 2018, 12:08 pm
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       Frog Lady-
       This lady worked for a federal contractor and had a security
       clearance and she mailed a classified document to a news
       organization. Yeah, you can`t do that. Look what happened to
       Snowden. She wasn’t and couldn’t be legally charged for saying
       she hated America 3 times on Facebook. People say that 1000
       times on Facebook everyday. She wasn’t prosecuted for saying she
       didn’t believe in climate change or whatever she said about
       denying it being more important to the US government than
       providing healthcare. So what? That`s not a crime. Yeah, the
       government is watching, and always had, even before the internet
       and social media. People are on the streets in organized
       protests saying they hate the US government all the time,
       joining BAMN, and all sorts of other anti-US organizations. Have
       you even looked at The Militant? Not exactly a US government
       supporting newspaper, and it`s published weekly in San
       Francisco. And, as far as prosecutors throwing out at trial that
       she hated the US government, before a jury, doesn’t surprise me
       one bit. What was the defense response to that remark? I don’t
       have the trial transcript, but it probably was: „Objection,
       relevancy, move to strike. JUDGE: Sustained. The jury is
       instructed to disregard the comments.“ If you read the trial
       transcript that’s likely how it reads. Remarks like that would
       be inadmissible at trial because they are irrelevant and
       prejudicial for the jury to hear.  She wasn’t on trial for
       saying she hated the US government 3 times on Facebook or
       anything else she said that was anti-American anywhere.
       Prosecutors do this crap all the time to prejudice the jury. She
       was on trial for leaking classified documents as a former
       employee of a NSA contractor, with a security clearance, to a
       new agency. Yeah, that`s illegal. But the trial tactics? That
       means nothing.  It´s a lawyer thing and I`ve seen it all the
       time. By the way, Snowden always talked about how he loved
       America. I think he still does. But, that’s not helping him a
       bit.
       #Post#: 5461--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Anything you say
       By: SHL Date: August 24, 2018, 1:02 pm
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       „Prosecutors also used Winner’s own words against her, including
       a Facebook chat in which Winner once wrote to her sister: “Look,
       I only say I hate America like 3 times a day.”
       Of course, they would mention this for media hype, but the
       report doesn’t say whom prosecutors said this to. It was almost
       surely not in court at trial because it would be prejudicial for
       a jury to hear. The defense  probably filed a Motion in Limine,
       which was surely granted, to prevent prosecutors from mentioning
       this publically before or at trial. This would just be standard
       defense practice and would be malpractice not to do it.
       So, these remarks were likely made to the press after sentencing
       just as a propaganda ploy. You can see what a barbaric sentence
       she got as it is.
       #Post#: 5463--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Anything you say
       By: SHL Date: August 24, 2018, 1:32 pm
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       Frog,
       Oh, and don’t worry about me. I`ve made all kinds of plans to
       escape from the US before the place turns into totalitarian
       dictatorship, which is coming. No empire has ever lasted forever
       in world history. And Jerry and NealC will be stuck here singing
       the blues. LOL.
       So, if you can recommend any good Polish language schools if the
       Germans won`t take me in I`d be grateful.  ::)
       And, of course, if the Germans won`t take me in, maybe you could
       write me a nice letter of recommendation on a Polish asylum
       application? Actually, I read that in some countries the
       President can grant citizenship to anyone they like, which is
       great. I don’t know if Poland follows this rule. But, in any
       event, I`ll even write my own letter of recommendation for
       asylum for you. You`d only have to translate it, or I`m sure I
       could get Pasha to translate it (he`s a nice guy) and sign it
       too.
       I was thinking of something like this: „I am delighted to have
       this opportunity to recommend SHL for political asylum, a
       gentleman I know from social media.  He deserves political
       asylum. He is a wonderful person,  is highly intelligent
       humanitarian and he supports a very popular US political party,
       The Party for Socialism and Liberation, which publishes a very
       insightful weekly newspaper for real working class people, The
       Militant. I think he would be a wonderful contribution to Polish
       society due to his humanitarian values and his insight into
       world affairs. He is a good Evangelical Lutheran, of the German
       variety, (even if he hasn`t been to church in a few years) and
       is learning to integrate by studying Polish. He may speak Polish
       with a heavy German accent, but he says he`s working on it. I
       cannot recommend two other Americans, NealC, because he is a
       capitalist chicken killer (he raises chickens and sends them to
       the guillotine even when they`re not even fully grown)  who
       underpays his workers so he can live in luxury, and this other
       American Jerry, supports everything the US government does and
       has a weird name for Obama. No, unfortunately he would not be a
       good „ fit“ here either. But SHL would be a true asset. Yes, SHL
       loves Germany, but all that German-Polish stuff is in the past
       and, as they say, „forgive and forget.“ So, with this I offer my
       full unqualified endorsement for SHL´s asylum.“
       See, all you need to do is translate that into Polish, sign it,
       and I`m all set.  ::)
       #Post#: 5465--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Anything you say
       By: NealC Date: August 24, 2018, 4:28 pm
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       No, we wait for them to be fully grown.  The largest growth
       spurt for a chicken is the first 8-12 weeks depending on breed.
       There is no sense slaughtering them early while they are still
       making maximum surplus value for me.  It is the old ones we
       slaughter without mercy, sort of a Chicken "Logan's Run" around
       here.
       I am sure the above missive will touch the heart of the Polish
       PM, citizenship is just around the corner SHL.
       In actuality I will wave goodbye from Italy to your partially
       communist a s s when your friends at the Militant take over and
       find you are still not fully subservient to all party policies.
       #Post#: 5469--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Anything you say
       By: SHL Date: August 24, 2018, 4:46 pm
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       NealC
       You don’t even show mercy to the older chickens? Horrible. So,
       the middle aged ones get the guillotine? Terrible.
       So, the poor workers get their surplus value stolen from them so
       you can pay for your Yacht. The American way.
       Yes, and I`m quite confident my asylum application will be very
       influential with the Polish PM. Like you said, it will touch his
       heart. I just need to enlist Pasha and Frog Lady to sign it.
       Sort of like sponsors to show I`m not a flake.
       And, I do hope the Italians say they have a nice place for you
       down in Sicily, next to a nice family called the Sporanos. And
       then you can hang out with a lot of nice Italian-American New
       Yorker ex-Pats like „Lefty“ from the movie Donny Brasco. Then as
       soon as you move in lefty can come up to you and say, „Hey,
       Pisano. What, are you for real killing these chickens?“
       #Post#: 5470--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Anything you say
       By: Truman Overby Date: August 24, 2018, 5:19 pm
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