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Showing Original Post only (View all)Time to Come Home, Edward Snowden, and Stop Hiding Behind a Corrupt Regime [View all]
Michael DalyThe NSA whistleblower should face the music in America, and while hes at it, he could criticize the tactics of the ex-KGB thug whos offered him asylum.
Time to come home, Edward Snowden. Time to announce that you would rather face an American prison than endorse Putins thuggery with your continued presence in Russia.
Time to end your silence about the seizure of Crimea and the troops massing at the border with eastern Ukraine. Time to cease undercutting your own cause with the hypocrisy of speaking about Internet security even as you abet international piracy.
You appeared via video at the South by Southwest conference with the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution green screened behind you. But you did so while enjoying the protection of a KGB thug turned would-be czar.
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DonViejo
Mar 2014
OP
Well said. Plus he is stuck in Russia because the US pulled his passport, not by his own choice. nt
cui bono
Mar 2014
#135
He is in Russia because the US pulled his passport. Not by his own choice. n/t
cui bono
Mar 2014
#134
Go complain to him about it. Not sure why you are being so combative with me.
cui bono
Mar 2014
#165
You're probably right that if the conditions were right he would come home. But since you say he
cui bono
Mar 2014
#167
Cuba wasn't going to touch him with a ten foot pole, and all roads went through Havana.
MADem
Mar 2014
#171
So I take it you would rather not know about what he has revealed about the NSA.
L0oniX
Mar 2014
#68
As long as he has an audience in the US for his diatribes, he will have a place
TwilightGardener
Mar 2014
#3
Yes ...you'd think he would rather be in a country that lies itself into a war...
L0oniX
Mar 2014
#11
Sounds like you are describing Russia, they have lied in many wars and have war
Thinkingabout
Mar 2014
#26
Correction: Some DU'ers are democracy supporters, others are surveillance state supporters.
Maedhros
Mar 2014
#21
Sorry, I'm not interested in guessing the motivation behind what this DU'er or
DonViejo
Mar 2014
#22
Time for Ed to come home and take up spying on the TPP negotiations, drones, and
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2014
#14
Whatever (alleged) moral or honorable grounds were drowned in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2014
#17
What a joke. The neo-cons are the ones in the pit, they need to stop digging themselves deeper.
reformist2
Mar 2014
#18
He could return to the US and we would have the cost of a trial and his imprisonment or
Thinkingabout
Mar 2014
#28
Or trust.. "How Vladimir Putin and his Homophobic Henchmen are Brainwashing the Russian People"..
Cha
Mar 2014
#47
Yes and all those who seek asylum to the U.S. should criticize the U.S. government.
Luminous Animal
Mar 2014
#36
"..But you did so while enjoying the protection of a KGB thug turned would-be czar."..
Cha
Mar 2014
#41
I am not so sure I would have a warm cizy feeling living in Russia. At one time
Thinkingabout
Mar 2014
#59
Just what I thought, so it goes to my thoughts in the past, if he returns to the US we
Thinkingabout
Mar 2014
#61
That's right.. he's going to keep bitchin' about the USA while hypocritically hiding out in Russia.
Cha
Mar 2014
#77
It's the only important isssue to those who are under oppression and I stand with them.
Cha
Mar 2014
#79
How pathetic to think Standing With LGBT All Over the World is somehow on a "high horse".
Cha
Mar 2014
#99
How pathetic to think that posting on DU is standing with LGBT worldwide. nt
Democracyinkind
Mar 2014
#103
Well while you go around spreading your ignorance the rest of us will Stand up for LGBT.
Cha
Mar 2014
#104
Well, I'm glad someone finally said it. It's a shame it wasn't Glenn Greenwald.
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2014
#57
I stand corrected. And looks like Maduro's following close on Putin's heels.
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2014
#95
Sounds as if you're of the belief that Snowie wound up there by accident, I've never....
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2014
#180
Who wouldn't prefer decades in maximum security prison over relative freedom in Russia?
Douglas Carpenter
Mar 2014
#76
He could probably work a deal where he works while he's incarcerated or gets early release if he
MADem
Mar 2014
#168
Yet it is Snowden who extolls the virtues of Russia standing up for human rights.
randome
Mar 2014
#106
When you become a whistleblower of his importance, I bet you'll manage not becoming one just fine.
Democracyinkind
Mar 2014
#107
When faced with the choice of facing the music, or fleeing to a far worse offender and saving his
Adrahil
Mar 2014
#121
He didn't intend to stay in Russia. The US pulled his passport so he is stuck there.
cui bono
Mar 2014
#133
They teach science in school, but some people still think Earth is 6k years old.
Incitatus
Mar 2014
#154
They are hiding FROM a Corrupt Regime, does your nose bleed way up there on that high horse?
Vincardog
Mar 2014
#161