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In reply to the discussion: Edward Snowden: 'I Already Won'-“If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public” [View all]stupidicus
(2,570 posts)given the high likelihood of illegalities, etc, involved.
I suspect that inevitably his detractors will be feeling kinda foolish since the emperor's nakedness can no longer be denied, and the remedies sought and acquired justify his efforts as a result. It appears that about the only thing they (keyboard warriors) have left in an effort to ameliorate the damage to their egos stemming from being so abysmally wrong on most of it from the beginning, is the idea that he should have made himself available for the kinda justice the guilty in this case would still love to dispense.
Apparently the nobility of an effort is determined by the willingness or not of the individual to be a sacrificial lamb in the very same kangaroo court they are trying to dismantle - you know, where that type have sat proudly as wouldbe jurors while sucking the thumb of the hangin judge.