Your right. You know, I never did like all those seat belt laws. Not gonna wear one anymore and when the cop pulls me over, I'll just refer them to you. I'm sure it will all work out for me!
That's critical thinking and most people just aren't comfortable with it these days.
2 centuries of slavery, civil rights, interracial marriage, jim crow laws, school segregation, prohibition, nisei camps, lack of universal suffrage, child labor, forced resettlement of entire peoples & many more!
EDIT: apparently those things are bad and i am trying too hard. i guess sucking dick is the only option here.
I'm not about to call him a hero because I don't know his real motivations (stopped clocks and etc.) but I otherwise agree with Araysar particularly that "just following orders" isn't an excuse. Whatever his reason, Snowdwen revealing the NSA Surveillance State was a Good Thing (tm).
And that's exactly my point. All those things took time to stop, and required far more effort than one man throwing out small pieces of information and then disappearing into the hands of our , how do we say, 'least likely allies'? Instead of getting ALL his information out there, he, through his own actions, has turned this into a circus about himself, which runs counter to his claimed objective of exposing the truth. This isn't some movie where the righteous hero says a heroic speech and the mighty evil shadow government falls to its knees in defeat. This is reality and the reality is its gonna take more than this guys word and what little information he has leaked to change things. We need more and instead we have Wikileaks v2.0 which will probably be just as weak as they were since he seems to want to string this fiasco out, which only serves to reduce the impact of his message.
So Harriet Tubman should have been captured and imprisoned/executed for aiding the release of slaves from the south? I feel like you're fucking giving me brain cancer over here, man.
I agree. That's why we need 100 Snowdens, A thousand, hell ten thousand Snowdens. It can't be just one.
His stringing out things has puzzled me. Is he being advised via his journalistic contacts or wikileak lawyers that this is the best course of action? Is he letting it out piecemeal to judge reactions, and then counter-leak? So far he has been pretty selective and obviously hasn't disclosed technical information and more intricate details of the programs yet. His ability so far to get the information and desseminate it, avoid capture, garner support and allies, again like wikileaks and their lawyers (Who better than Assange to tell help you evade the US's most hellish Wrath) has been pretty impressive, if you think about. If you stole a thumb-drive or three full of info and have the mother-effin' U S of A after you, do you really think you would have gotten as far as he has? For a high-school dropout that's pretty impressive, especially if you look at the way the media is portraying him. While the media will try to turn you against him for being "uneducated", we have a long list of drop-outs who went on to do amazing things.
Its laughable to compare weaver with snowden. Why would you even do that? Because they both "broke laws"?
My guess is that he's leaking it piecemeal to get coverage going longer than 24-72 hours.
Neither China, Russia, or Cuba are his ultimate destination. Ecuador is a democratic republic with a popular president. Their official currency is actually the USD. Snowden also made past statements of preferring asylum in Iceland. Basically his options are limited because most countries would rather give up a political prisoner and ignore international law rather than endure the wrath of the United States. We've already seen this with Sweden and Britain's handling of Assange. So he has to travel through countries that aren't easily bullied. That doesn't mean he gave them anything.
