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In reply to the discussion: Re: Attacks on Snowden, Greenwald. How the fuck do people like that sleep at night? [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)What personal benefit does this do Snowden? And don't give me...he wants to be famous and somehow make a fortune. He is living in a small apartment in a country he does not want to be in and is in constant danger and will be for the rest of his life until he is captured and then he will join Manning in prison. Have you really convinced yourself that this is a desirable situation for him personally?
You seem to demonize the act of "theft" itself as if there is no room for context. Theft can be a bank robber who steals a million dollars all the way to a North Korean prisoner who "steals" a few grains of rice that has fallen on the ground and is beaten because of it.
Ellsberg was a thief. Manning was a thief. Jeffrey Wigand was a thief who tattled on the tobacco industry. Mark Felt was a thief with his information about Watergate. Where one chooses to draw the line at civil disobedience for the greater good is up to every one of us. It is hypocritical of you to simply throw out the word "thief" or theft as the black and white determinant to decide a persons character with no room for context.