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In reply to the discussion: Edward Snowden - closer to hero or bad actor? [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)9. Classic "commie go back to Russia" response.
I have no doubt that had he been a Russian on the inside of that nation's security state, Edouard Belarov would have revealed illegal and undemocratic activity there -- and the Russian authorities would have tried to get him on a kill list, just like the U.S. authorities would like to do. And blind Russian patriots would make comments asking why he wasn't exposing American abuses - as if he could, or as if this was relevant.
Shameless.
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I'm waiting for his report on the Greenpeace activists arrested by Russia before voting. nt
msanthrope
Oct 2013
#4
Definitely a bad actor, no question about it. And one that almost certainly had malicious intent....
AverageJoe90
Oct 2013
#38