Shamai Leibowitz, Once Jailed Victim of Obama’s War on Whistleblowers: Snowden a ‘Man of Conscience’

[sibelian]

10. Once again, for the hard of understanding...

If the State fails to provide sanctioned methods whereby it'swrongdoing can be exposed, the only remaining avenues for revealing such wrongdoing are methods that do not involve the consent of the State, ie.e illegal ones.

If someone passes a law saying "you're not allowed to tell anyone I'm raping people" and someone does tell everyone anyway, and they go to jail for it, they are, technically a prosecuted and convicted criminal.

I really don't know what you think you're acheiving by posting these silly opinions other than revealing that you have nothing but contempt for the citizens of the United States of America. If the law is used for inhuman, nefarious purposes, the law must be broken. Reflexively calling those who break such laws "criminal", in the context of a national discussion on the subject of the "criminal's" revelations, which have potentially profound consequences for the nation's information structures, only shows that you presumably would have preferred that nobody knew about it.

Anything can be "criminal". All you have to do is pass a law against it.

Like being gay. Or using Marijuana.

Or protesting a certain distance from politicans.

And so on.