What kind of coward is Edward Snowden?

[MADem]

106. I don't think anything about it.

I think the correct answer to the gotcha question he was asked was this:

I would like to answer your question completely and honestly, but I ask that I be allowed to do so in closed session.

That whole hearing was a public show; no light, no heat, lotsa noise.

The NSA may well be "arrogant," but that doesn't make Snowden anything less than a thief, and maybe a full-blown spy. I think he might need an MRI. Adult onset epilepsy can be accompanied by frontal lobe lesions that cause personality changes, judgment issues, and intelligence gaps.

Who's paying that boy's bills, I wonder? The Novotel Hotel in the sterile area is three hundred bucks a night. You can't get room service for less than fifty bucks.

If our democracy was in the "what's left of" stage, you wouldn't be whining at me on DU about this matter. They'd have already busted down your door and dragged you, flailing and shrieking, from the loving arms of your distraught family, to be "disappeared," never to be seen again...or if your family was lucky and some official took pity on them, they'd leave your body wrapped up outside the gate for your loved ones to claim.

That hasn't happened, though. And it's not going to, either. I've lived in countries where that shit happened all the time, so I find the drama of people who don't really understand the difference a bit .... amusing.