This thread may not go well.. but it has to be said...

[LiberalLovinLug]

70. So "scumbag" isn't vile?

And you insist on branding him a thief over and over. You push that technicality. But he "stole" from a company that was contracted out to YOUR government with YOUR tax dollars. He only revealed what you were paying for...secretly, and at odds with what the head of the NSA was saying at the time. You use the word thief as if there is only one type of thievery. He "stole" these documents not for personal gain, in fact he has sentenced himself to a life on the run, away from his home country who he did it for, and if he returns will be prosecuted under the espionage act, making it all but certain he will get a long sentence, and most importantly, his reasoning for doing what he did will not be allowed as defense.

If a person is violated or attacked in someone elses home, if that victim, sees a chance to escape grabs a phone tape, or weapon used, or some other evidence of the crime, would you call that person a thief too? Because it sounds like it..even if the victim had paid for that weapon or tape! And lets say that abuser is a very powerful person in the community that declared we shouldn't look at his crime, but rather focus on the fact that this "thief" stole information on the phone tape, or stole a very expensive knife (that the victim had bought as a present for him). I suppose there are some so mesmerized by authority and the power they wield to the point that they will actually fall for that.