Edward Snowden In 2009: Leakers Should Be 'Shot In The Balls'

[MADem]

95. Well, I guess I'm not surprised.

I will say, the guy has a very high--and IMO undeserved--opinion of himself!!!

I wonder how smart he's feeling about now...?

I also wonder if this "Run, Eddie, Run" game was all his idea, or if his hubris--which is evident in everything he's written on the net that I've seen, and in his rather pontificating interview--tripped him up. Did he really jump into this, eyes wide open, or did his pride allow him to be goaded or pushed by those reporting/documenting this saga in a sort of "put your money where your mouth is, Big Boy" kind of way?

I do think he had an idea that he'd go to Hong Kong, be greeted as a liberator, remain ensconced there in luxury as an honored guest, and the government of Iceland (which isn't as liberal as it used to be--they recently got new, centrist leadership) would leap through their own assholes to roll out the red carpet for him... "Eddie, Eddie, come to us! You'll be a more beloved exile than the racist wingnut Bobby Fischer!!"

Instead, Hong Kong said "Pack your bags, get the hell outta here, they're coming for you and our puppetmasters in Beijing have told us that you don't have anything in those laptops and thumb drives that we haven't aready acquired through our crack PLA Unit 61398 in Shanghai! You're a day late and a dollah short, son! Git 'em up...mooooove 'em out! Here's a Russian phrase book--you might need it!"

Either way, there's only two words to describe his deserved future--he's fucked. He'd better learn to do without his computer, because he's going to have to make do with books and magazines when he becomes a guest of the government.