Edward Snowden and the Death of Nuance

Trailrunner7 writes "As the noise and drama surrounding the NSA surveillance leaks and its central character, Edward Snowden, have continued to grow in the last few months, many people and organizations involved in the story have taken great pains to line up on either side of the traitor/hero line regarding Snowden's actions. While the story has continued to evolve and become increasingly complex, the opinions and rhetoric on either side has only grown more strident and inflexible, leaving no room for nuanced opinions or the possibility that Snowden perhaps is neither a traitor nor a hero but something else entirely."

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Re:hero

[Anonymous Coward]

We need to Polonium the treasonous asshole. He sold out his country and his people and fled to our former enemy. How much more evidence do you need? In the formative days of our democracy or the days where the Greatest Generation was running the show in WWII and after, this would not have even been an issue. Loose lips sink ships; you cut the dead weight and live to fight another day. His name will live forever with the likes of Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen and as far as I'm concerned if you put me in a room with him for an hour or so There would only be one of us leaving.

Re:Or he's just another

[s.petry]

Remember, the central meaning of life is to gain power, of which everyone does in ever little thing they do.

Obviously you are a very shallow and mentally disturbed person. No need to read the rest of your post. If this was meant as a joke you should have indicated such. As it is, you appear to be a very deranged person writing some sort of deranged manifesto.