Ed Snowden

[struggle4progress]

6 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Russian triple agent
	0 (0%)
	Another transparency saint cruelly hounded into exile by The Establishment
	1 (17%)
	Who gives a fuck?
	0 (0%)
	US double agent
	0 (0%)
	A flawed but basically good and warm-hearted man trying to make his way in this strange world
	1 (17%)
	Show-boating twit
	0 (0%)
	Just the latest bloom in America's perennial crazy-crop
	0 (0%)
	Future head of the NSA
	0 (0%)
	Clueless libertarian ideologue still in need of adult supervision
	4 (67%)
	The man who peered around the corners in the mirrored puzzle-palace
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[tblue]

1. Definitely not a tool of the establishment.

Too bad that's not an option.

[MagnumUK]

2. A Hero.....

...AND a villain.

[peacebird]

3. I believe he has truly been good for the people. He has shown a light on the NSA cockroaches

and all they want to keep hidden. Why do we spend SO much on the NSA when our own military need food stamps to feed their families at the commisary? I have seen young military families using food stamps at the Commisary... How totally f'd up is THAT? And we have to cut SNAP by billions, yet there is NO mention of cutting the NSA budget? Really?

Now THAT is totally fucked up.

[Marr]

4. Just a tip-- mocking NSA whistleblowers now, after so much has come out...

...makes you look pretty bad.

[struggle4progress]

6. Mileage may vary

[grasswire]

10. +1000

I know that I would personally be embarrassed to do so.

[Ron Obvious]

5. A genuine hero and whistleblower

Who sacrificed a great deal personally to expose the excesses of the burgeoning US surveillance state.

I wonder who here would have had a single bad thing to say about him had Bush still been president while this all came out?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. We need more whistle blowers like him and reporters like Greenwald.

[Vanje]

8. I selected, "whistleblower".

Or I would have if this wasn't just another tiresome push-poll.

[grasswire]

9. ^^^

Crazy choices in this OP, for sure.

[Quantess]

11. He wears frumpy sweaters, too.

"A flawed but basically good and warm-hearted man trying to make his way in this strange world"

In fact, I saw him crotching beaded kewpie dolls to raise money for hungry children in Africa. I think that's what's in those cardboard boxes in his garage.

[riderinthestorm]

12. I love blatant push polls like this. It exposes the authoritarians amongst us so neatly

Such a handy reference for my tired brain. I don't have to memorize who you all are.

Thanks! Bookmarking!

[last1standing]

13. I chose "Stripper dating freedom-hater who doesn't unpack his boxes."

Or would have but you missed those particular insults when creating this push-poll.

I have trouble understanding anyone who would call themselves "struggle4progress" spending so much time and energy posting apologies for a corrupt organization that even the Obama administration has said is out of control.

Why is it more important for you to persecute a whistleblower than to prosecute a criminal agency?

[KittyWampus]

14. I WAS going to go with "who gives a fuck"...

until i read further and found

"Clueless libertarian ideologue still in need of adult supervision"

Which probably nails it, although I'm not completely convinced he wasn't at some point co-opted by either the Bush/CIA to do damage to the NSA and/or Obama or Russia/Putin to get back at us for outing one of their agents not long ago.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Ed Snowden is ...

... the subject of obsession by an unhealthy number of DU stalkers, whose lives seems incomplete if they can't make snide comments about him. Still, I suppose this keeps them off the streets, so they can't do things to people in real life.

[Enrique]

16. you forgot China n/t