Snowden Asylum Request: Rene Perez of Calle 13 Offers To Pick Up NSA Leaker, Asks Celebrities To Lend Him Their Jets

René Pérez, better known as Residente of the band La Calle 13, wants to borrow your favorite celebrity's jet. The rapper and icon of the hip international left took to Twitter earlier this week, directing in English and Spanish to a number of celebrities asking if they'll lend him their planes so that he can personally go pick up NSA leaker Edward Snowden and fly him to Latin America. "If I had a private jet I would personally go collect #Snowden and take him to Latin America. @BarackObama will you lend me yours?" he wrote on Tuesday.

Pérez posed that same question to other celebrities, too, including Kim Kardashian, Paul McCartney and Thom Yorke.

Another series of tweets sees Pérez posing questions about Snowden in English, Spanish and Portuguese under the hashtag "#MiCasaEsSuCasaSnowden" (#MyHomeIsYourHomeSnowden). That hashtag turned into a global trend on Twitter off the strength of Residente's 6.5 million Twitter followers.

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"En qué país latinoamericano estaría más seguro #Snowden? ¿Por qué?" tweeted Pérez under hashtag #MiCasaEsSuCasaSnowden. "In what Latin American country would Snowden be safest? Why?"

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Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello chimed in on the virtual debate under the "MiCasa" tag, writing, "Still sickened by NSA spying on me & you & ur mom & Brazilian teachers & German puppies etc? Hey Eric S!"

Some 10,300 retweets and 2,781 favorites later, he composed another post expressing excitement over the debate his initial posts had generated. "Esto estuvo genial! Qué ideas tienen para #MiCasaEsSuCasaSnowden? Escriban sus ideas. ¡Sigamos la lucha!" he wrote. "This was amazing! What ideas do you have for #MiCasaEsSuCasaSnowden? Write down your ideas. Let's keep up the fight!"

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The Puerto Rican bandleader, whose group rocketed into public consciousness on the Caribbean island with the release of "Querido FBI" ("Dear FBI"), a 2005 missive dashed off after militant pro-independence figure Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was killed at the hands of the FBI, is no stranger to combative political statements. Nor is he to Twitter collaborations with his fans. In June, he met up with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Assange remains holed up as he evades what his supporters see as trumped-up charges of sexual harassment. Pérez and Assange appeared live on a video in which Twitter users contributed ideas to a song about media censorship which will reportedly appear on Calle 13's next album.