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jpgray

(27,831 posts) Mon Jun 24, 2013, 12:15 AM Jun 2013

So to understand the argument... [View all]

Honorable Snowden would have persisted in aiding and abetting practices he believed to be illegal and wrong, never telling a soul.

Brave Snowden would have kept cashing fat checks and cooling his heels in Hawaii with his dancer girlfriend.

Treacherous Snowden speaks out about government practices he believes to be illegal and wrong, not to a government but to journalists.

Cowardly Snowden would enjoy a freewheeling life on the run, skipping from haven to haven in a globe-trotting lifelong vacation. Nothing could be easier than to be wanted and pursued for treason by the most powerful government in the world - a charge to be answered by his death upon apprehension.

Do these words mean what you think they mean?

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So to understand the argument... [View all] jpgray Jun 2013 OP

he could have stopped working there and got another job JI7 Jun 2013 #1

Ellsberg shoulda gone into plastics. jpgray Jun 2013 #4

Silence is complicity. Gravitycollapse Jun 2013 #5

lalalalalalalalalalala frylock Jun 2013 #18

He took the job specifically to steal documents and distribute them to other countries. KittyWampus Jun 2013 #20

Or just spilling the beans on our Narkos Jun 2013 #2

My God, you think data mining hundreds of millions of phone calls is "perfectly legitimate." Gravitycollapse Jun 2013 #6

Arguing w someone like you Narkos Jun 2013 #10

you're the one in denial in this scenario frylock Jun 2013 #19

All the canniest spies do tedious interviews with Glenn Greenwald, I'm sure jpgray Jun 2013 #8

if he has a problem with those govt practices why did he go to a place like hong kong JI7 Jun 2013 #3

Sex tourism? jpgray Jun 2013 #7

then it's not bringing attention to the issue whatever that is supposed to be JI7 Jun 2013 #9

you mean the issue that EVERYONE is talking about? frylock Jun 2013 #21

Candidate Obama said he'd strengthen whistleblower laws leftstreet Jun 2013 #11

I don't think you've been paying attention to all the good that has been done. That or okaawhatever Jun 2013 #16

what does that have to do with the whistleblower laws? frylock Jun 2013 #22

didn't he complain about not making more money JI7 Jun 2013 #12

$3,000 more a week and he would have been an honorable true-blooded American jpgray Jun 2013 #14

"cowardly" is now a term of art. It means disagreeably brave. cthulu2016 Jun 2013 #13

Why don't people understand you can be brave and an obnoxious asshole at once? jpgray Jun 2013 #15

in this case i just don't think he is brave JI7 Jun 2013 #17

but he would be brave if he were rotting in gitmo.. frylock Jun 2013 #23

was just thinking about this a little while ago-- marions ghost Jun 2013 #24