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A Democratic Scandal Is Unfolding in Denmark
- neonate 5y agohttp://web.archive.org/web/20220127221912/https://politiken.dk/udland/art8587872/A-Democratic-Scandal-is-Unfolding-in-Denmark http://web.archive.org/web/20220127221912/https://politiken....
- nickff 5y agoThe first line reveals the most important question in the article: >"The Danish state is moving in an authoritarian direction by charging whistleblowers under sections of the law that should only be invoked against traitors." The question of who is a traitor is (somewhat) answered later in the article, but I see the answer as unsatisfactory. The real question is that of political authority: does the government have a right to coerce, and does the populace have a duty to obey. It is my view that Michael Huemer answered these questions best: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_of_Political_Authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_of_Political_Autho... edited to clarify question
- wutangson1 5y agoso, there is something rotten in Denmark
- baryphonic 5y agoSend for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
- mjklin 5y agoRosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
- jonahbenton 5y agoSnowden interviewed from Moscow, complaining about the intelligence services in Denmark. Hard to imagine how one could be a more useful idiot for the Russian intelligence services.
- invalidname 5y agoI appreciate Snoden and understand him. But you're probably right, Russia is far worse than anything the NSA did.
- tinus_hn 5y agoI’m sure he’d love to move to a better place if a certain government didn’t make that impossible.
- jonahbenton 5y agoLet's talk about what "impossible" means. If he had done, or were to do, to Russia, what he did to the United States, he would be dead. Full stop. Pun intended. And then, he truly would have moved to a better place, if you believe that sort of thing. He could attempt a return to a country in the US orbit, and he would have to go to jail for a while. So, not in a better place, in a way. But he would be alive, and in a place with some integrity, which is better in other ways. It is not impossible, in other words, for him to move to "better" places. We see very clearly his priorities in his decision while on Russian soil to speak to the actions of other intelligence services while maintaining silence on the actions of Russian intelligence. If he had any integrity at all he would at minimum maintain silence.
- raxxorrax 5y agoAs if Russia was relevant here. He leaked info about your own state spying on you. If you just accept that because said government points its finger to a far off useful antagonist, like it has done in the last election, I don't think throwing around terms like useful idiot is too adequate.
- jonahbenton 5y ago
- a0-prw 5y agoThe real traitors are the politicians who have sold out to the US for decades.
- blooalien 5y ago> "The real traitors are the politicians who have sold out to the US for decades." ^^^ So much exactly this, yet for some inexplicable reason we have entire segments of the population that worship the politicians of their chosen "party" as celebrities or saints.