The Big Lychee Nails Snowden

[Benton D Struckcheon]

The Big Lychee is a nickname for Hong Kong, kinda like The Big Apple for NYC. It's also the name of a very entertaining blog from there, which ended its latest posting with this:

Back in Hong Kong, apparently, some groovy bearded cyber-hero renegade college drop-out trendy CIA whizzkid self-important self-righteous Julian Assange-wannabe narcissist is getting his 15 minutes as global heartthrob martyr for his betrayal of the Western world, liberty and apple pie. If this were a TV show, the casting director would at this point introduce a redhead girlfriend with pink lipstick and pink tutu. Adoring supporters laud him for sacrificing himself for the cause of personal privacy on, of all places, Facebook and Twitter. Officious, grim US commentators call for extradition and life behind bars. All this freaking out because no-one stopped to imagine that the intelligence industry would do basic passive traffic analysis – nothing personal, they’re not watching you, yes it’s a waste of taxpayers’ money – on social media, just as we all know they do on email and mobile phones. The soap opera will, no doubt, have an entertaining denouement in due course, and who can failed to be touched by Mr Snowdon’s charming faith in the Big Lychee?

http://biglychee.com/blog/2013/06/13/parking-in-the-living-room-with-cambodia’s-middle-class-1/

(You'll have to cut & paste that link into a new browser tab. The apostrophe is throwing off the link.)

About as perfect a characterization as it gets.