23-06-2013, 09:42 AM
The Icelandic government recently changed from a rather progressive one to a somewhat regressive one. By US standards it is still quite progressive. While we don't know what has been said privately, publicly, Iceland said they couldn't make any decision until Snowden first physically came there and applied and went through the process...and Snowden said he'd like to go to Iceland, but wouldn't until they promised him asylum...so, publicly, it was a stand-off that couldn't be resolved. My guess is that Snowden also knows which countries the NSA can easily monitor people in and which not...and is choosing his locations accordingly.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass