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Edward Snowden is no hero
- lazzlazzlazz 13y ago"The American government, and its democracy, are flawed institutions. But our system offers legal options to disgruntled government employees and contractors. They can take advantage of federal whistle-blower laws; they can bring their complaints to Congress; they can try to protest within the institutions where they work. But Snowden did none of this." So, when the system has rationalized these violations of basic rights to itself through legal gymnastics all in the name of security, Toobin suggests we turn to the system itself for relief? Either he doesn't understand the scope of the issue, or he's a shill for interested parties. Honestly, though, I've never taken Toobin seriously.
- baddox 13y agoThe two main arguments in this article are that Snowden isn't a hero because he hasn't released any information that everyone didn't already know, and that Snowden isn't a hero because what he did was a crime. The former is ludicrous; the latter is the whole freaking point and the reason people call him a hero.