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Manning stood to face her her crimes like a long line of revered civil disobedients before her. Snowden ran away into the arms of a hostile foreign power. Tha
by slg 6y ago
Manning stood to face her her crimes like a long line of revered civil disobedients before her. Snowden ran away into the arms of a hostile foreign power. That has just as much to do with pissing off the government as what either of them revealed.
- dencodev 6y agoThe laws that would out Snowden and Manning in prison for life are unjust and there's nothing wrong with what either of them did. I don't blame Snowden for leaving a country full of idiots calling for his death
- slg 6y agoAnd Manning stuck around to fight those laws on the frontline with great personal risk and sacrifice. Snowden fled to avoid having to make the type of commitment that Manning had made.
- dang 6y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. Your comment would be fine without the swipe at the end. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html