3 South American lands show US how to be good Americans

Three cheers for Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia for offering asylum to NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden. America's thanks to Snowden for exposing unprecedented, massive spying on our entire populous is to charge him under the Espionage Act and seek to imprison him till he's too old to blow a real whistle much less expose further governmental c...riminal behavior.

Since 911 Americans have ceded all sense of duty to be good citizens, allowing their government to lie and intimidate and scare them into launching criminal wars killing hundreds of thousands, including 6,729 GI's. To his credit, President Obama ended the Iraq war and set a December 31, 2014 end date for our criminal Afghanistan war. To his discredit, Obama has launched a murderous drone campaign of world wide assassination of suspected bad guys, secretly put on a list to die in violation of all American principles. To his discredit, Obama has expanded ours illegal spying program to include, besides all Americans, 38 embassies and missions of foreign lands including many considered allies.

All Snowden has done is rip the silly suit of red, white and blue off Uncle Sam leaving him to stand naked before a world weary of his war mongering and targeted assassination and now spying. If anyone wants to know how to be a good American, just look afar to Moscow where Ed Snowden awaits his fate, or south of the border to find three sterling examples of real Americanism.