Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy

[sabrina 1]

39. You haven't answered my question. Do you have something to back up the claim made re

the blog posts that supposedly came from Snowden? If not I will continue to assume they were falsely attributed to him.

You have obviously not been following the polls on Snowden. With anger growing against these Bush policies the polls now show that 56% of the American people reject the claim that Snowden is a 'traitor and view him as a Whistle Blower. Up one point from last week, and more than double the numbers since the beginning of July.

I have no clue what the 'ruskies' are doing. I prefer not to speculate without something to back it up.

We are no shining example of when it comes to Human Rights. All I have to go on re the Russians is the difference in how peaceful protestors were treated here, brutalized, beaten, some nearly to death, and thrown in jail. When people took to the streets in Russia otoh, almost at the same time, protesters were treated with a whole lot more respect.

It isn't the Soviet Union anymore. However, I know little about their human rights record now so I cannot offer an opinion on whether it is worse (which would be hard) than ours or better.