Let's go with your premise that the DA was incompetent, biased, corrupt, or whatever.

What part of "no defense attorney would let his client testify at his own grand jury hearing unless the fix was in" did you have a hard time with?

I've always thought that rioting was an odd response to injustice in the system - whether perceived or real.

Why don't you ask the cops that start them? From the 60's through Occupy, most riots can accurately be described as police riots. But that's a part of the gameplan: cops brutally crack down on protestors, and authoritarians such as yourself blame the protesters. It's a time honored tactic, honed to perfection. The only way to cause change is to make life inconvenient enough for the bourgeoisie and the the politicians is to inconvenience them until they do something about it.

All your nice polite protests in a limited area, for a limited duration accomplish is a continuance of the system. There was no independent DOJ autopsy of Eric Gardner's murder, nor an independent DOJ investigation, nor a personal visit from the Attorney General from the United States. That did happen in Ferguson, precisely because the people didn't bend over and take their oppression like you would prefer they do.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK

Same shit, different decade. Next up: Santa is real, because every Christmas NORAD tracks him.

You make some good points, but Snowden is stuck in Russia, and I intentionally did not want to get in to "Who is Worse?".

But it's unavoidable. It's like trying to watch with a straight face as Chris Brown gets a lecture on how to treat women....by O.J. Simpson.

Murders of Politkovskaya, Litvinenko, and now Nemtsov are just the tip of the iceberg.

Pennies on the hundred dollar bill - and that's assuming Putin ordered or condoned their killings. Obama has killed thousands of innocent people with his drones, including barely 16 year old boys for political speech their fathers made.

If you are referring to Mohamedou Ould Slahi

I'm referring to the more than 50 people who are still being held in Gitmo, some of which have been cleared for release from when Obama was still a Senator. The cop-out that 'their home countries wouldn't take them back' never held any water, since the U.S. spent years ignoring Urugay's offer to take some in, before finally freeing six men late last year.

That was a very stupid thing to say

Trade places with Chelsey Manning and say that again.

Sat photos are hard to fake, and sat photos of artillery/tanks entering Ukraine from Russia are pretty damning evidence.

You mean pictures on social media, which are very easy to fake. It's funny, Russia has been invading Ukraine for a year and a half now - after the American supported coup overthrew the elected government six months before the agreed upon early elections - but not one shred of evidence has been presented by the U.S. to back up it's claims.

All those spy planes, all those spy satellites, and not. one. picture.

Easy: if rioting ensues, the trial must have been unfair - just as in Ferguson.

What trial? The DA acted more like a defense attorney at the grand jury hearing, where Wilson actually testified. Which is as much of a clue as one needs to know the fix was in. A remotely competent defense attorney would break his client's leg before letting him do that....unless the whole operation was a CYA from the beginning.

So stick that in your police state apologist pipe and smoke it.

Yes, because writing an opinion that differs from yours is clearly only possible by being paid to do so.

Only because there are people who bend over backwards to excuse inexcusable corruption and government lawbreaking. Case in point:

Making public a lot of things that people suspected but didn't quite know did indeed damage relationships. Had he not released the documents, the relationships would have continued as before.

Abusive, domineering, illegal relationships. Do you apologists throw parties with the Stasi Boosters Club? If not, why not?

That's what's fucked over every whisteblower from Manning to Kiriakou: they aren't allowed to argue in court that their actions were justified.

I mean Vlad could just order him killed by unknown assailants and then blame the U.S. for the purposes of some minor PR points. He's that kind of guy.

I have yet to see bitching about Putin that wasn't either a case of projection, or 'beams and 'motes. He's an authoritarian doosh, but he's not keeping people in gulag's that have been cleared for release for a decade, nor is he busy murdering people on the other side of the planet with robot planes for their political speech. Nor has he supported a coup in Mexico and then all but invited his newly created puppet government into the Warsaw Pact.

Putin, at his worst day, is a a molehill next to the mountain of American Exceptionalism on it's best day.

Balls? The U.S. has shown it has no qualms about having a diplomatic plane - even one carrying a head of state - forced down by puppet governments because Snowden might be on board. The same U.S. that is busy leveling sanctions against the governments of Russia and Venezuela for American-made problems - the successful coup in Ukraine, the so far unsuccessful coup attempts in Venezuela. The U.S. that has asserted the right to murder anyone on the planet at any time, even barely 16 year old boys for the political speech of their fathers.

It's not just taking in a political refugee. It's taking on Western Imperialism, and you have to have Snowden-sized balls to do that.

the crime he committed was keeping an oath

FTFY. You know the Oath of Office swears you to defend the Constitution, not the bipartisan fascists trampling it, right? Right?

They make great hardware, but getting rid of Nitro PDF is particularly annoying, it UAC's more than once, plus Sugar Sync, which even having on our systems violates a client agreement. Crapware needs to die, and die now. I do my best to work from a factory image, hardware seems to be so much easier to deal with that way, but Lenovo makes it quite an annoyance.

Not every method of buying honey includes a lot of labels.

The Tea Party has issues with Obama's policy which are valid and have nothing to do with Obama's race, yet they get cast as racist by the political commentators in the media, and the media reports this as news.

Because so ,many of them ARE racist. Your excuses aren't helped by the fact that every issue they've whined about for the last six years was done first by Bush, from deficit spending to pushing immigration reform to signing statements. But they DGAF till the black guy was in office. They only alternative is that they are as willfully stupid as the Obamabots who spent six years bitching about Bush and the Patriot Act only to yawn when Obama not just extended it but signed the NDAA into law.

They're either idiots, or racist idiots. Take your pick.

Anarchists aren't against rules, they're against rulers. Libertarians are just fine with rulers, so long as they are "job creators", otherwise known as robber barons and oligarchs. Oh, and the "property rights" fetish, when the property is owned by the aforementioned barons and oligarchs.