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Right now I'm guessing Hong Kong and Beijing authorities are both dearly wishing Snowden had chosen somewhere else Flip the actors. What if a Chinese spy ha
by sbierwagen 13y ago
Right now I'm guessing Hong Kong and Beijing authorities
are both dearly wishing Snowden had chosen somewhere else
Flip the actors. What if a Chinese spy had fled to the United States and started to feed the press information on how the Chinese government had hacked essentially every computer system in the US; and in return the Chinese issued an arrest warrant, and demanded that the US send him back to the mainland so he could be tortured to death?
- nknighthb 13y agoIf you had a point you were trying to make, it was lost in the absurd hyperbole.
- altcognito 13y agoWhere is the absurd hyperbole? That he would be tortured? Look at the case of Manning. Look to what the three NSA whistleblowers said awaited him when he returned. As a US citizen, I want to believe this is hyperbole and nonsense, but the fact is, this is exactly what we should be doing - turning the mirror upon ourselves and performing a real self-examination of who we are as a country.
- nknighthb 13y agoManning is not dead (hence, not "tortured to death"), and he is also subject to the military justice system, which Snowden is not.
- mark_l_watson 13y agoManning was tortured. Sleep deprivation for many months is recognized as torture under international law, right?
- nknighthb 13y agoIf you stop looking for a reason to argue and instead read my words with dispassion, you'll realize I never said he wasn't tortured.
- ncallaway 13y agoIndeed. He wouldn't be tortured to death. He would be tortured, then executed.