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In reply to the discussion: Time to Come Home, Edward Snowden, and Stop Hiding Behind a Corrupt Regime [View all]Cha
(297,196 posts)79. It's the only important isssue to those who are under oppression and I stand with them.
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Time to Come Home, Edward Snowden, and Stop Hiding Behind a Corrupt Regime [View all]
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