Michael Stewart
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As the question asks, is Snowden a traitor, patriot, or something else in your eyes? Why or why not?
When you choose to break the law, you are a criminal.
You can be a patriot even while the state brands you a criminal. You should know that from a depth of American history.
When you choose to break the law, you are a criminal.
Are there any instances where breaking the law is the right thing to do?
There are many instances where breaking the law is the only right thing to do.
Doing what Snowden did was one thing and if he hadn't run off to China, Russia, perhaps Cuba, and God knows where else, my opinion of him ( not what he did ) would be a lot different.
Oh please.So he should allow the government to torture him at gitmo?
When you choose to break the law, you are a criminal.
Oh please.
He doesnt want to be tortured I dont blame him.
So he should allow the government to torture him at gitmo?
Well all they'd do is waterboard him. According to some, that's not torture.
Well all they'd do is waterboard him. According to some, that's not torture.
I'm not sure about Snowden. On some level he's both and on some level he's neither.
So he should allow the government to torture him at gitmo?
Then the US government are criminals. I'm pretty sure that these surveillance programs violate many different kinds of constitutional and human right standards. If not, the system is seriously ****ed up and it's high time to finally make laws that prevent the government from grotesquely spitting into the face of Western values.
Snowden is a hero fighting against a government that grossly oversteps its competence in an authoritarian fashion (and no, I don't think Obama is any more to blame than the Presidents in office before him).
If wanted to stand on principle he could have just released the information while he was still in America. Doing so in another country may protect him in the short term, but it begs the question of who else did snowden release the information to.
He had other choices. To deliberately choose the Russians says everything you need to know about him.