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In reply to the discussion: Bradley Manning is a hero and a freedom fighter. [View all]totodeinhere
(13,688 posts)28. The OP said that they...
"support any and all non-violent resistance to the abomination that is the global security state that emerged from the rubble of the World Trade Center disaster." That is what we are dealing with here. History is replete with brave souls who committed civil disobedience, technically crimes, who in so doing advanced the cause of human rights and liberty. Snowden has been convicted of nothing but if he is ever submitted to a kangaroo court as Bradley Manning was that won't change the fact that he is a courageous patriot who sacrificed much for a good cause.
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Bottom line is that Snowden has openly and publicly admitted that he committed crimes.
Tx4obama
Jul 2013
#13
Yeah, "detachment" is probably a good word for it, from a military perspective...
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Jul 2013
#30
Judging from your ardent, unwavering quasi-nazi like support of the Military Industrial Complex
Zorra
Jul 2013
#44
Yes. You choose to side with the authoritarians that are killing in our name. nm
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#69
And what the fuck do any of those anecdotes have to do with what he revealed?
NuclearDem
Jul 2013
#22
Someone who dumps hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks...
randome
Jul 2013
#23
And once again you side with the authoritarian NSA and against whistle-blowers.
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#68
Convicted by a kangaroo court. The real felons are the ones who submitted Manning
totodeinhere
Jul 2013
#29