Do You Think That's Funny? A Conversation between Edward Snowden and UBERMORGEN
We met Edward Snowden at Vienna's International Airport in Vienna on July 2nd, 2013 shortly after Bolivia's presidential aeroplane, having been denied the right to cross their respective airspaces by France, Spain, Italy and Portugal, was forced to land in Schwechat. Snowden had been on board as a guest of Evo Morales. Shortly after the arrival of the plane, a close friend of ours, who works at the airport, tipped us off. It took us less than thirty minutes to grab our stuff and arrive by cab. Our friend guided us through airport security into a rather filthy office area in the former main terminal. We found Edward Snowden in a small, stuffy, neon-lit room, where he seemed to have been deposited like a questionable parcel that nobody wanted to touch or knew what to do with. After our initial hello and how are you's, Edward described the rather strained behaviour of the Austrian Authorities. He said they seemed to go out of their way in order not to have to talk to him: they wanted to keep their record clean and stay 'neutral'. Historically, having served as an intelligence hub between East and West, Austria has a record of facilitating secret service meetings that few other countries can match,. We were quite astonished that there were no OGA's in the room with Mr. Snowden, so we grabbed the opportunity and started to talk with him. He immediately lighted up and actually seemed happy to see a couple of friendly faces. We spoke quietly but fast since we had no idea how much talking-time we had left. http://www.academia.edu/4767844/Edward_Snowden_in_Conversation_with_UBERMORGEN _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
