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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat do you think Snowden is thinking right now?
I'm gonna guess....
"Is this all they have to eat here?"
- and -
"I should've given this more thought."
Brother Buzz
(36,383 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)He has only strangers to support him right now and thank-fucking-hank he has the righteous by his side.
tridim
(45,358 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,351 posts)I'd feel bad for him but he started this misadventure out as a libertarian know-it-all, so why bother?
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Unfortunately, by going public the way he has, he has both raised the penalty that the US is willing to inflict on a host country and deprecated the value of any information he has to give a host country.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)"Damn. I thought that fart was going to be silent, but everyone totally heard it."
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)even further damaging to the surveillance state. In the event something happens to him, those files will be opened.
"All I can say right now is the US Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped."
I did not reveal any US operations against legitimate military targets. I pointed out where the NSA has hacked civilian infrastructure such as universities, hospitals, and private businesses because it is dangerous. These nakedly, aggressively criminal acts are wrong no matter the target," he argued.
http://rt.com/news/snowden-edward-nsa-guardian-817/
one_voice
(20,043 posts)I thought this was going to be Jason Bourne cool but it fucking sucks.
He thought all the paranoid people that live here who actually believe they're living 'the 1984' and that cars are hacked and blown up would look up to him and cheer his name and idolize him as the coolest mother fucker to run away and hide.....
...oh wait that is happening.
wonder if he gets the internets where he is.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)eissa
(4,238 posts)That's the last time I do a favor for some smug, narcissistic journalist.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)on his plastic-wrapped sandwich.
eissa
(4,238 posts)or caviar his way in exchange for all the info he'll give them.
UTUSN
(70,649 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)I bet he never thought almost half of them would go instantly into President Obama Protection Mode, or that the first protocol in the mode would be to trash Snowden by talking about his girlfriend or boxes in his garage or whether or not he talked to his neighbors or whether or not he had the requisite education to be thought of as schmaaaart like those who have degrees (but aren't necessarily edumacated).
Cleita
(75,480 posts)eissa
(4,238 posts)At least that's what Glenn told me.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)you will not want to spend any longer than you have to in it..
It's behind passport control too..no shops..no retail...I wonder how he is getting food..period..
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I hope someone is giving him supplies.
At least he's got plenty of reading material on his laptop, so he can keep busy.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)"That asshole Greenwald said that it would be easy!"