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In reply to the discussion: Snowden (who really does, apparently, have epilepsy) helps an epileptic. [View all]grasswire
(50,130 posts)...one might take your lengthy explanations seriously were this OP not part of a pattern by some to slyly and carefully tar Edward Snowden using all the old slurs that despots have thrown at dissidents over the centuries. Because some here see opposition to Snowden as their highest calling, this pattern persists day after day, some posts more cleverly constructed than others, but all in the same cadence.
No one has tried to shut your OP down. (Lord knows you have had your say, at great length.) Some have simply objected to this continual pattern of assigning all manner of illnesses and character flaws to Snowden in order to discredit his work.
You were not a participant in that prior thread (which I quoted at length in this one) where your cohorts did the same kind of sly assigning.
It is a pattern through history, and here today.
Be clear. There is no shame in mental illness, or in neurological deficits, or in any other condition of the human mind or body including addictions and weaknesses. None.
There IS SHAME when those conditions are used to influence public opinion against dissidents of TPTB.
And the sadly amusing part is that no mind is changed on DU by the bloviations of those who criticize whistleblowers. In fact, many members have indicated that Obama has not been helped by these self-identified defenders.
No matter how twisted your explanations are on this thread, no one is fooled.