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6/1/2016 10:58:02 PM
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Edward Snowden: Hero or traitor?
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16 RespuestasWhat I don't understand is why people care that the government knows what you are googling or what your emails say. You think they are gonna somehow use it to do what?
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If he gave information about gov spying to a gov that is supposed to be representing the people that is spying on the people who they are supposed to be representing, who did he betray?
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24 RespuestasHe shouldn't have run. A real "hero" would've stayed in America.
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1 Respuestahe had to flee the country because every other NSA whistleblower before him went through the proper channels and(there were several, they were kept under wraps) had in violation of whistleblower protection laws, been arrested and made criminals through insane and absurd tactics. the one directly before him had gone through the legal channels for whistleblowing. as a result, they raided his house, and found out he had a non classified gov't document in his house, they arrest him for having classified documents in his house and retroactively classified the document while he was in custody, then burned his house down and sent him to prison for arson of his own home and illegal possession of a classified document. that's the type of insane shit he had to flee from. that's the way every whistleblower who went through proper legal channels was silenced before he did his leaks. he's a patriot for exposing such a high order of corruption. they have unconstitutional secret courts that can over-ride SCOTUS and already ratified constitutional amendments.
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Editado por DigitalNinja: 6/4/2016 3:15:15 PMBoth, yet neither. He directly went against the nation. That is treason. He also released classified information. That's also treason. But he did bring to the public knowledge that we are being watched to an extent, proving that we broke our own constitution in a way. However, he broke the laws of the country to do it.. I personally think the crimes committed out-way the benefits here, but it is a sort of positive thing that we all have this information now.
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He is a man
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2 RespuestasHe is guilty of treason, and should face a firing squad.
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5 RespuestasAnyone who says Hero is an edgy teenager who has no idea what he actually did.
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2 RespuestasThe fact that a quarter of you see him as a traitor is distressing.
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What do you think?
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A Hero for blowing the whistle on the government for clearly doing wrong and spying on its own people. We as a country shouldn't stoop as low as North Korea. The only problem I have is him divulging other unrelated documents that didn't need to be released.
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I'm on the fence. On one hand, it goes against common sense to leak something like that, because anyone knows the Gov't will uck your day if you do. On the other, what he did leak resulted in a government program that involved tapping into and viewing citizen's communications without their consent. So, on one hand, he decided to go toe-to-toe with the government, which is lacking in intelligence, yet on the other, he did something morally correct. That is hard to find these days. I still think he shouldn't have run, because that doesn't really help, it only adds to the problem.
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1 RespuestaWhistleblower. He tried to be a hero, and alerted the public as to secret spying. However in the process he failed to protect information that helps take down terrorists. So I'm kinda neutral on him
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Neither. His actions opened eyes and shed some light but they had some unforeseen consequences for sure.
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"I'm neither traitor nor hero. I'm an American."
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Neither. He was an eye opener, but thats it. If what he leaked had sparked a revolution he would have been a hero in my book but since it didn't I'm neutral
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6 RespuestasSeeing how nobody has done a damn thing about now that we know for sure that the Government is spying on us, whether you think he is a hero of not is irrelevant. Seeing how we don't know who went MIA or KIA and don't have a way to find out, we can't just go to the extremes and call him a traitor. So let's go to neither of the extremes and just call him a person who did wrong in response to another wrong to make it things "right".
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3 RespuestasA hero to his values, a traitor to his country.
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7 RespuestasEditado por tjustie: 6/3/2016 3:06:31 AMI'm pretty sure he released a ton of info that was completely unrelated to American citizens too, with some of it possibly endangering American operations overseas. That makes him a traitor. He wasn't selective with what he leaked, he just grabbed a ton of information and released it all, with no regard for what it contained. He's definitely not a hero, even if a lot of what he released was good for the American populace to know.
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Meh... It would be nice if he hadn't endangered the lives of untold American operatives. He did some good, though.
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Both. Hero for letting people know of spying. Traitor because he released other unrelated highly classified documents.
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23 RespuestasThose who believe he is a traitor stand as a monument to all that is wrong with the world. People who would rather stand by and watch as a corrupt government breaks the very principles their country was founded upon, them have one man break the law in order to expose this corruption. You are a disgrace to mankind, sticking your head in the sand whenever challenged to think by yourselves. You want your government to hold your hand throughout life, and you would never for one moment question their motives? This is the sin of the willfully ignorant.
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15 RespuestasHERO: Because he blew the whistle on the government spying on its own people.
