It’s not like Snowden wanted to stay in Russia, but the Obama administration exerted diplomatic and economic pressures on other countries to deny him asylum. I will repeat what I said about a similar cartoon: Does Morin think that, in Russia, Snowden will have more, or less freedom than he would here in the U.S. in a Supermax prison for the rest of his life? Bradley Manning was effectively tortured – kept naked, sleep deprivation, isolation. So Snowden should come back out of principle to face a government that seeming doesn’t have any principle anymore? Snowden is a hypocrite for staying in the one country that he can stay in, but Obama, who praised whistleblowers in campaign speeches but prosecutes them with a fury, isn’t?
So far as we know, Snowden has been treated better (that is, more justly) than he had any reason to expect in the American gulag. You’ve evidently pushed the Bradley Manning case down the memory hole already. Cowards don’t defy the world’s sole remaining superpower with a record of human rights violations and international war crimes like ours. FYI: the true cowards are those who sit safely at home posting vapid, faux patriotic declarations like yours.
It is a national shame that the present administration’s distrust and fear of American citizens has driven this poor man into Russia. He did a brave thing, forced the administration’s power play out into the open, and for that they will persecute him to his grave.
Yeah, “real American heroes” focus on the crimes of other governments while ignoring those of their own. To hell with THAT, Snowden IS a real American hero. The scum who help the NSA spy on us, and keep their secrets, THEY are the traitors.
braindead Premium Member over 10 years ago
So, was Daniel Ellsberg a hero? Or a disloyal traitor communist socialist fascist?
OmqR-IV.0 over 10 years ago
Odd choice, I must say. Was he a beggar who couldn’t choose?
DONALD E STEVENS over 10 years ago
It’s not like Snowden wanted to stay in Russia, but the Obama administration exerted diplomatic and economic pressures on other countries to deny him asylum. I will repeat what I said about a similar cartoon: Does Morin think that, in Russia, Snowden will have more, or less freedom than he would here in the U.S. in a Supermax prison for the rest of his life? Bradley Manning was effectively tortured – kept naked, sleep deprivation, isolation. So Snowden should come back out of principle to face a government that seeming doesn’t have any principle anymore? Snowden is a hypocrite for staying in the one country that he can stay in, but Obama, who praised whistleblowers in campaign speeches but prosecutes them with a fury, isn’t?
ajhil over 10 years ago
So far as we know, Snowden has been treated better (that is, more justly) than he had any reason to expect in the American gulag. You’ve evidently pushed the Bradley Manning case down the memory hole already. Cowards don’t defy the world’s sole remaining superpower with a record of human rights violations and international war crimes like ours. FYI: the true cowards are those who sit safely at home posting vapid, faux patriotic declarations like yours.
Spyderred over 10 years ago
It is a national shame that the present administration’s distrust and fear of American citizens has driven this poor man into Russia. He did a brave thing, forced the administration’s power play out into the open, and for that they will persecute him to his grave.
joe vignone over 10 years ago
The difference between Russia and Americo is that we do it better and more efficiently.
pirate227 over 10 years ago
Uh, the KGB was replaced by the FSB but, I get your point.
Harrison_Bergeron over 10 years ago
Yeah, “real American heroes” focus on the crimes of other governments while ignoring those of their own. To hell with THAT, Snowden IS a real American hero. The scum who help the NSA spy on us, and keep their secrets, THEY are the traitors.