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Yes, Snowden's treatment is appalling. What does it have to do with this case?
by skjoldr 5y ago
Yes, Snowden's treatment is appalling.
What does it have to do with this case?
- jomnasi 5y agoNothing. It is however valid to point out the staggering similarity where a nation state forces an airplane to land in order to arrest/try to arrest a person the government considers a criminal.
- throwaway210222 5y ago> Yes, Snowden's treatment is appalling. What does it have to do with this case? Really ? Dead, deep in you heart, ask yourself what the USA would have done if Snowdon or Assange were on a Mexican flight over the continental USA to Canada.
- skjoldr 5y agoHuman rights violations are human rights violations, regardless of who commits them. In the Russian space, they occur daily, in the West they are rarer. What is the point?
- skjoldr 5y agoI think any reasonable person understands that international politics are inherently driven by national interests and thus are hypocritical by default, because often there are no perfect solutions that are acceptable to everyone. Least you can do is to call hypocrisy out when it happens, and ask yourself whether it was at least done in your interest as a citizen or not. If you want to compare political systems, do it systematically, not on case-by-case basis. Russia had jailed many more political activists and has far more draconian laws against freedom of speech and freedom of assembly than Western countries, even if Western countries sometimes unjustifiably limit these freedoms as well.