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Can Snowden fly by private jet from Moscow to Ecuador?
- itan1um 13y agoHe still has no passport though...
- farolino 13y agoThat may be the single most blatant piece of PR I have ever seen!
- zv 13y agoIndeed. Who cares if he travels from Moscow to Ecuador in single trip or several. Seems like blatant advertisment which just screams "Call PrivateFly"
- farolino 13y agoRoll up, roll up and join the Edward Snowden publicity train (or plane)!
- jensnockert 13y agoIt even actually says just that right at the bottom of the article.
- mynameisme 13y agoIf anyone had any doubt about there being voting rings on this site, this story just proved it.
- zorbo 13y agoIt answered a question I've been asking myself, so I upvoted it.
- abrimo 13y agoYea it really is - I have nothing to do with these fellows but I found it interesting nonetheless so I posted it.
- midnitewarrior 13y agoYou can fly wherever you want. No international commercial airline will let you on their plane unless you have a valid passport / VISA for the destination. If you show up by private plane, you will have to show your passport to enter the country, or else you are denied entry. Currently, Snowden is denied entry to Russia, and is stuck in the "Transportation Zone" of a Russian airport, unable to enter the country. Snowden was in discussions for asylum with Russia (who would issue papers allowing him in if granted), but Snowden has reconsidered this option and is seeking asylum elsewhere.
- Torn 13y agoHe's also had his US passport revoked - if he does fly, it'll have to be accompanied by diplomats or similar with special dispensations
- toomuchtodo 13y agoAs a US citizen, its bullshit that a country can revoke your right to travel outside of itself.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> As a US citizen, its bullshit that a country can revoke your right to travel outside of itself. Countries don't provide (or revoke) your right to travel outside of their sovereign jurisdiction (which would be contrary to the entire idea of sovereign jurisdiction); they can, however, revoke their willingness to represent to other countries that they have some kind of relationship with you. (They can also stop you from exiting their jurisdiction while you are still inside it, and though the US would have liked to have done that in Snowden's case, it didn't have the opportunity.) Its the country you are currently in and the one you are attempting to enter that control whether or not you have the "right" to travel.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoYou, as a citizen of country, have the right to renounce your citizenship of that country at any time. Your country of citizenship should never have the right to revoke your own citizenship. I understand stopping someone from leaving the borders due to legal reasons. But being able to stop your travel once you're outside the country? No.
- ck2 13y agoA better question is if such a flight would ever arrive considering how close it would come to the US east coast. Remember it's now magically legal to kill US citizens without a trial. What makes me ill is that there would be a number of people arguing on both conservative and liberal networks that this is acceptable.
- dnesteruk 13y agoThis is shameless advertising.
- NonEUCitizen 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970940
- rafski 13y agoIt's hard to think US would not intercept the plane at some point over the ocean. Could be the case even with a commercial flight.