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Honestly, I'm pretty over Snowden. The moment he fled to a foreign power, he should have known he would never be a free man in America. Chelsea Manning's sente
by helen___keller 7y ago
Honestly, I'm pretty over Snowden.
The moment he fled to a foreign power, he should have known he would never be a free man in America. Chelsea Manning's sentence was commuted, but Snowden will never have that opportunity because he fled. Furthermore, since the day he fled, he has literally done nothing but try and shame our government and our system through media.
There's a chance the motivations behind his actions really are what he says they are. There's no doubting that his leaks were a good thing for Americans to know about. But at this point I'm more inclined to believe he's a foreign asset working on a campaign to kill trust in American government and American intelligence.
He's been working this "fair trial" thing for years now. He's just another marketing tool as far as I'm concerned.
- AlisdairO 7y agoWhistleblowers in the US are almost universally abused by the system. If the US wants whistleblowers to stick around, it should consider treating them with the kind of respect they deserve. It's crazy to me that in all the talk of punishing snowden, there's never a mention of punishing those who betray the country by spying on their own citizens.