It's a strawman, and a pretty easy one to get folks to give traction to. People love to identify hypocrisy even though avoiding it has a habit of being wildly i

It's a strawman, and a pretty easy one to get folks to give traction to. People love to identify hypocrisy even though avoiding it has a habit of being wildly impractical. I think hypocrisy gets a bad rap. It's avoidance is a common but subtle excuse for not doing shit that matters. The idea that Snowden has only chosen to rail against the unreasonable privacy violations of the country he's a citizen of, and most familiar with doesn't seem surprising or unreasonable to me. The argument that if he hasn't put similar energies into calling out every other nation that finds itself in violation of these ideals, then he must be lying about his motivation is absurd. Also, he doesn't say 'you' can't get a fair trial in America, he says that he can't get a fair trial in America.