Why should we petition to pardon Snowden when he has THOUSANDS

[pnwmom]

of classified documents on his thumb drive, we don't yet know what information is contained in them, and we don't know what he's going to be doing with them?

Doesn't asking to pardon him from unknown crimes seem a teensy bit premature?

[flamingdem]

1. People who signed that petition are doing so without

understanding the role Snowden is playing. Or if they read and find out a lot of the claims are overblown then it becomes "well he's bringing attention to this issue".

Inadvertent results don't pardon him.

[Tippy]

2. I agree with you..I don't trust Snowden not one bit...I don't believe he is on the up and up for one

thing but that is my opinion..We need to learn more..Did you see the interview siht a so called friend/co-worker two days ago, did not like her or what she had ot say one bit I think I saw this on MSNBC but it could have been CNN...

[Thinkingabout]

3. I agree, the actions taken by Snowden is never acceptable and in violaton of the Code of Ethics for

his employment. I can not accept his "reasons" for revealing the information he was never to reveal. He is not trustworthy.

[morningfog]

4. I favor absolute transparency. Pardon him and protect him!

[pnwmom]

6. Would you favor absolute transparency that precipitated a war?

We don't know what's in the classified documents or who might get infuriated.

[morningfog]

10. You'll have to develop that hypothetical more.

If we are doing things that would cause another nation to start a war with us if known, we shouldn't be doing it.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

[sibelian]

11. ... huh?

do you know something we don't?

[pnwmom]

13. He's got thousands of classified documents.

Since that could mean anything, no one should just assume they're all innocuous.

[sibelian]

14. So you're saying America's done something to piss someone off?

Like what?

[Rex]

5. People are strange, they feel the right to do what they want to.

Regardless of what you or I say.

[randome]

7. If a few PowerPoint slides represent their best, there's probably not much else.

Maybe some memos on assigned parking spaces, the updated cafeteria menus, maybe the latest 'synergies' memo and possibly some jokes about a company with the name of 'Booz'.

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[HappyMe]

9. Sounds like the Lounge.

[geek tragedy]

8. The Snowden fans are like the Jonathan Pollard fans.

Don't bother.

[CakeGrrl]

12. He's fast eroding his political capital

by his apparent willingness to broker documents to the Chinese to avoid jail time. What principles.

And Great Britain wants no part of it.

[flamingdem]

15. What came out about Great Britain?

?

[leftynyc]

19. Britain wants no part of him

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57589304/britain-to-airlines-dont-let-edward-snowden-fly-to-u.k/


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The British government has warned airlines around the world not to allow Edward Snowden, who leaked information on top-secret U.S. government surveillance programs, to fly to the United Kingdom.

A travel alert, dated Monday on a Home Office letterhead, said carriers should deny Snowden boarding because "the individual is highly likely to be refused entry to the U.K."

[flamingdem]

20. I guess he may have attempted that from Hong Kong

but it's odd that they'd think he would try to got to Great Britain

This was more about being a staunch ally I guess

[leftynyc]

21. Maybe it's because that's where

The Guardian is published? No ally of ours is going to grant him entrance.

[bowens43]

16. Hopefull he release ALL of them.

this is exactly why we should be pushing for a pardon.

[Zorra]

17. If wealthy private interests had not completely taken over our government,

and we lived in a genuine democracy, your OP would be much more reasonable.

Unfortunately, here in the Corporate States of America, many of us no longer perceive our government as being derived from the consent of the governed, but see the government as derived from the manipulations and influences of wealthy private interests, effectively having become a government of, by, and for, the 1%.

Many of us perceive acts of corporate state spying on us as acts of aggression hostile to our sovereign individual and national democratic interests.

Edward Snowden, by simply drawing focused widespread attention on the arrogant, widespread invasion of our privacy by the 1%, has given people a bit of sorely needed hope for real change. Right or wrong, he has become a hero to many people, a hero that would be unnecessary if our country and government were not almost completely occupied by the 1%.

[watercolors]

18. I feel he committed Treason, no sympathy for him at all!!