It's been a hellish few weeks for every anarchist’s hero Edward Snowden, who is still hiding out in the Moscow airport. He is the guy that the United States Department of Justice wants really bad for exposing classified information to the media, particularly details on how the government is spying on its citizens. Whether you agree with what he did or not you got to agree the guy has got some balls, he is the new Bradley Manning. The news today states that three countries in South America have agreed to give him asylum, they are Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua. I have had a lot of experience working with students from Central and South America, and if I had to make a choice I would choose Bolivia over the others. It is a mountainous country and is very beautiful and sits in the majesty of the Andes. Venezuela just had their president Hugo Chavez die not long ago so their political future is on shaky grounds, just recently there was a panic in the country when they ran out of toilet paper! You know there are going to be riots in the street when toilet paper runs out, soon after that there were emergency shipments made down there to make sure everyone could wipe their ass in peace. I don't know much about Nicaragua but those group of countries in Central America just South of the most Mexican border have had troubles over the years, it was Nicaraguan rebels that were getting money from weapon sales during the Iran contra scandal of the 1980s which tarnished Ronald Reagan’s presidency. However if costa Rica or Panama gave me asylum I would go there, but the country I would most love to have political asylum would be Cuba! I could then spend the rest of my days smoking Cuban cigars and having wild parties with them crazy Cuban girls, who along with Brazil pretty much invented the art of booty shaking! I wouldn't live in Havana though I would move down to Santiago as that's where Earnest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man And The Sea took place, and I'm sure you could take a quick ferry from there down to Jamaica for some good ganja. Hopefully wherever Edward Snowden ends up he will have access to good ganja also, for he has earned a lifetime of waking and baking and taking it easy. Just think of all the American tourists who would travel there just to hang out with him, he could open his own club call it the Informants I would certainly love to pay him a visit. Even though I pretty much applaud his actions if he is brought back to the United States he does need to face justice, because we really can’t tolerate field agents in our government releasing classified information just because they disagree with its contents. I feel the same way about Bradley Manning because he was a soldier and took the oath of military service, Julian Assange I would not include because he is not an American and I hope he is able to remain free of United States prosecution. For those of us who serve in government roles it should be known that if you release sensitive information to the public even if you think it’s for the common good, that you basically sacrifice your own freedoms in doing it so make sure it is worth it. I wonder if right now if Snowden and Manning think that what they did was worth it, I have a feeling they are both just idealistic young boys who didn’t know what they were getting themselves into.
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