Suck it up, Snowden-haters: New Yorker on "Why Citizenfour Deserved Its Oscar"

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124. Maybe he learned new facts about what was going on in our government and that is why he

changed his mind.

I don't understand why people come to DU with their minds made up and criticize others for learning, evolving and changing their minds.

There is no point to discussions like this if you are not willing to change your mind.

I was rather critical of Chelsea Manning when she first revealed her secrets. I have had to keep secrets in my life because I promised to keep them. And the fact that she did not disturbed me at first. That was before I really thought about the horror of the secrets that she was being required to keep. I think there are situations when a citizen must speak out in a democracy and inform other citizens that their freedom, their democracy is in danger because of overstepping by the secretive people in charge.

That was something I realized and admitted to only after learning the facts.

The point in Edward Snowden's making his revelations was to wake people up to the surreptitious destruction of our democracy by the people we trust to make us safe.

People who don't understand are pretty hopeless in my opinion.