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Is Snowden Obliged to Accept Punishment?
Just Security ^ | 6/3/14 | Michael J. Glennon

Posted on 06/03/2014 10:45:26 AM PDT by Iced Tea Party

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1 posted on 06/03/2014 10:45:26 AM PDT by Iced Tea Party
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Is Snowden Obliged to Accept Punishment?

He can always stay where he's at.

2 posted on 06/03/2014 10:46:52 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Iced Tea Party
This article's logic is flawed from the beginning.

Gandhi, Parks, King did not conceal their activities because the point of their activities was to publicly promote their point of view.

Which is precisely what Edward Snowden's very public dance with Glenn Greenwald was all about as well.

And the accompanying cartoon is beneath contempt. It compares the USA to Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

Scratch a Snowdenite, find an America-despising traitor.

3 posted on 06/03/2014 10:50:30 AM PDT by wideawake
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Lemme get this straight. Snowdon is a traitor but Bergdahl is a hero?

Right.

Gotcha.


4 posted on 06/03/2014 10:51:22 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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Snowden’s actions might be considered treachery ... BUT ... His revelations have done Americans good in revealing government treachery ... against Americans.


5 posted on 06/03/2014 10:53:45 AM PDT by OldNavyVet (Looking forward to November elections.)
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Snowden's treason was inopportune for the administration, while Bergdahl's treason was something the administration thought they could conceal.
6 posted on 06/03/2014 10:54:24 AM PDT by wideawake
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Is “America” an ideal, or is it just a piece of geography?


7 posted on 06/03/2014 10:54:31 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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Seems to be very situational, doesn’t it?


8 posted on 06/03/2014 10:54:44 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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Is “America” an ideal, or is it just a piece of geography?

It's more than both.

But that isn't germane.

Comparing the USA to a Nazi puppet state is not only stupid and insulting, it tells you that you are dealing with an irrational ideologue instead of a serious person.

9 posted on 06/03/2014 11:00:38 AM PDT by wideawake
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This administration seems focused solely on managing its brand, and nothing else.


10 posted on 06/03/2014 11:02:17 AM PDT by wideawake
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Gandhi, Parks, King did not conceal their activities because the point of their activities was to publicly promote their point of view.

And the point of the Boston Tea Party was to do what? Obscure and downplay the colonists' resentment of being denied the rights of Englishmen?

11 posted on 06/03/2014 11:04:59 AM PDT by Iced Tea Party
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Seems to be very situational, doesn’t it?

Like it says in the closing words: traitor to the government, patriot to the people.

12 posted on 06/03/2014 11:05:00 AM PDT by Iced Tea Party
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Snowden’s actions might be considered treachery ... BUT ... His revelations have done Americans good in revealing government treachery ... against Americans.

It's not his reporting to us the details of the U.S. spying on its own citizenst that bothers me so much. It's the details he gave China and Russia about our espionage activities against them that does.

13 posted on 06/03/2014 11:07:46 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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I agree with you about the comparison with a Nazi puppet state. OTOH, one could draw plenty of parallels between the NSA, and the E. German Stasi — only the NSA is leveraging modern technology to do an even more thorough job of domestic spying.


14 posted on 06/03/2014 11:15:00 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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15 posted on 06/03/2014 11:20:26 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Black skin has morphed into Teflon.)
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"Scratch a Snowdenite, find an America-despising traitor."

You are full of it. The government is out of control. The government does not America make. Learn to separate the two and you will be on the road to freedom.

16 posted on 06/03/2014 11:22:52 AM PDT by semaj (Nothing will change until lying becomes an extremely dangerous & expensive habit.)
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I want to give him a medal. He should come back a hero for clueing us all in on the big plan.


17 posted on 06/03/2014 11:24:16 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Iron Munro

Ugh! Chelsea Kerry.


18 posted on 06/03/2014 11:27:39 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: wideawake
Comparing the USA to a Nazi puppet state is not only stupid and insulting, it tells you that you are dealing with an irrational ideologue instead of a serious person.

The imagery is admittedly a bit hyperbolic (like all those signs with Obama photoshopped with a Hitler mustache or Joker makeup), but the underlying point about the Big Brother state the government is creating is serious.

19 posted on 06/03/2014 11:28:28 AM PDT by Iced Tea Party
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A Snowden trial would be a three ring circus that the media could use to avoid all of Obama’s scandals as top billing in the “news”.


20 posted on 06/03/2014 11:34:33 AM PDT by grania
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