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Originally Posted by dyna mo
he's not in the military, he's not charged with anything similar to the heinous military crimes manning was charged with, he isn't required to follow any military protocols like manning and could have easily made presenting himself here just as dramatic as his authoritarian nation travels thereby keeping the focus on the revealed info and not on where's waldo/asylum drama/etc. that is doing 2 things:
1. focusing the media on snowden.
2. defocusing the media from the data he revealed.
it's not about whether or not i'm impressed with him or not, he's a jackass just like the rest of us, if others can be impressed by his simply revealing the data and running for cover, i don't think there should be a problem with other people saying they would be impressed if he handled it different and based on the historical data of whistleblowers and leakers in the usa.
more importantly, snowden's own words are even more telling, didn't do it for the 90% of the world's population, he says he did it for americans. his words, not mine.
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ah ok, I get where you're coming from more now
I can still see it from his POV as to why he felt the need to run away/hide/whatever you want to call it (collectively, not you personally I mean). I'd be wary as fuck about truly/really pissing off the gov't, and agencies etc.
And yeah the thing about doing it for americans - meh, I can gloss over that, and put it down to the OTT patriotism a lot of americans have *based on what I see/hear/read*, which isn't a dig at any americans here, it's just the way it seems to be over there. I still say well done to the bloke, with the caveat that I'm not completely versed in the whole thing
