Wolfgang Hansson: For high price to give Snowden asylum – Aftonbladet

Wolfgang Hansson: For high price to give Snowden asylum – Aftonbladet

No democratic country would offend the US and pay the price automatically follow from it.

Therefore, it is none other than Russia is ready to give Edward Snowden protection.

There are many politicians in Europe who think that Snowden should be regarded as a hero rather than a danger to society citizens should spend the rest of his life in prison.

While it is illegal in Sweden to which Snowden made copy top secret documents and make them available to the media’s disposal. Many still think he’s done a good deed by revealing the extremely interception as the United States engaged. Both of ordinary citizens and of friendly countries leaders.

The question is what is the most outrageous and most damaging, Snow Dens dissemination of confidential or America’s illegal wiretapping?

Edward Snowden awarded the Right Livelihood Award, the alternative Nobel Prize is an expression of the support of the former NSA employee has in many camps.

But even if many European politicians harboring sympathies for the whistle-blower, it is quite another to give him political asylum.

It is no coincidence that it was only Russia was prepared to receive Snowden when he was on the run, and there is still more than a year later, not a single Western country that offered him asylum .

To give Snowden refuge is the same as the deep freeze relations with the United States.

The country in question would immediately face sanctions from the US. Open such or in the form of hidden but painful punishments.

If Sweden would receive Snowden US would put extremely heavy pressure on the Swedish government to release him to the United States.

The Green Party spokesperson Gustav Fridolin hid in the television program Agenda behind the fact that it is the Migration Court and not the government that decides who should be granted asylum. But in a high-profile cases Snowden, it would be unthinkable that the court would even have the case on its removed without government was informed and had a hand in the game.

Although the Swedish government would sympathize with Snowden is the price of the type of upright gesture simply too high.

US would see it more or less as a declaration of war on Sweden sent a government plane to Moscow to retrieve Snowden, if it was not for extraditing him to the United States.

Should Valter Mutt continue to be the Green Party’s foreign affairs spokesman, he probably control the tongue more true in the future.

The spy suspect American is so plague that Carl Bildt and even stopped plans to distribute Right Livliehood-price Snowden – but that he was there – in the Ministry’s premises. Not even this small mark against the US was the previous government prepared to do.

Mr Putin Snowden is just one piece of the new Cold War game. A Russian Snowden would receive life directly or worse. The only reason for Russia to give Edward Snowden protection is angering the US and show that you are willing to put hard against hard.

So there is certainly a space here for anyone who wants to give Snowden a safer haven. My tip is that it stays right plot in the queue.