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[–]la_cues(>0u0)> 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I can see you are trying to make an argument saying Snowden didn't "do much new".

But regardless, is it not still right for the charges against him to be dropped? He did an honorable thing.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

What was honorable about it?

He was the release valve martyr built up and propped up for the people to adore, expressing all the things you and I can't - and changing nothing, and bringing no change to the establishment surveillance systems, other than making them more publicly known and accepted.

[–]wecandobetter 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Still doesn't deserve to be exiled to Russia

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Political theater performance art "exiled".