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Jonathan Turley: "English Officials Accuse Greenwald’s Partner Of “Terrorism” In Transporting Snowden Documents", JonathanTurley.org, 4 November 2013.
Jonathan Turley, a top US expert on constitutional law and legal theory, writes with great concern about how easily the UK authorities have slipped into categorising David Miranda's carrying of documents from Edward Snowden as "fall[ing] within the definition of terrorism." The West is on a "slippery slope", he writes; "[U]nder this definition, the Pentagon Papers could be treated as the same act as the 9-11 bombings." At a moment like this, let's pause to recall the often-quoted words of Pastor Martin Niemöller; but let's have them in the German this time... „Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, Als sie mich holten,
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