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In reply to the discussion: For those that call Edward Snowden a Traitor [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)which is still the same as it was when we THREW THEM OUT in 2008, still filled with Bush's cronies and violators of the Constitution against the American people.
Still obsessed with the messenger, still trying to distract from the Massive Surveillance of the American people that should, and in fact, HAS shocked the American people as polls are showing consistently since the revelations began.
The very fact that you have to ASK, here on DU, what violations have been exposed tells me you have been focused ONLY on the messenger and have not even bothered to find out what was exposed.
That is not my problem. You can throw away your own rights if you like, but you don't get to throw away the rights of the American people and polls show they don't intend to allow that.
Snowden, like Ellsberg and all other Whistle Blowers will be fine. It takes time when there is no will in Congress to go after the perps, but it will happen and when it does Snowden, Drake, Binney, Tice and all those Whistle Blowers to come, will be viewed in the same way Ellsberg is.
It must be awful to find yourself on the wrong side of history, as all those who were obsessed with Ellsberg now find THEMSELVES. Not even footnotes in history. While he will forever be viewed as a hero.