December 23, 201312 yr Without researching the whole story and just going by the brief tid bits I've got from the news I would lean more towards hero as opposed to "traitor". Personally it seems like Snowden is just sticking up for American freedoms, he was involved in a program that he obviously felt guilty about once he saw what was going down so he had to pull the plug on it. For recognizing something isn't right and that it goes against the Constitution takes a good American IMO. America as a whole is too quick to trust everything, including their governments and the government programs. Probably need to start being a little more careful when it comes to that IMO, Snowden just tried to show everyone this. What makes his job different from being in the military?
December 23, 201312 yr He's a traitor in my eyes. Why? He had a job working for the government and made his own call about what is right and wrong. He released that information when he shouldn't have and then fled the country looking for asylum. Smells like a traitor to me. He left the country because he would have probably been sitting in Guantanamo right now strung up by his toe nails. It's the only choice he had, if he had stayed in the country the outcome would not have been a pleasant one for him unfortunately. He had to leave it was his only option.
December 23, 201312 yr What makes his job different from being in the military? In the Miltary your job is to kill people, I can't equate that to someone who reads your text messages and internet history. Basically the way I see it is the more Snowden saw the more he realized how wrong it was. He saw that instead of monitoring "terror suspects" the program was actually just playing big brother or God and trying to examine your citizens every move. He saw how corrupt and unfair it was (not to mention unconstitutional) so he just finally said I'm out on this. I applaud him for that, he understood they shouldn't have the right to be doing all of that.
December 23, 201312 yr Author Would you consider someone who gave support,arms, and money to our enemies a traitor ?? In those general terms without knowing specifics? yes.
December 23, 201312 yr In those general terms without knowing specifics? yes. I have a feeling that you already have your reply ready when the reply finally comes to your answer.
December 23, 201312 yr Author I have a feeling that you already have your reply ready when the reply finally comes to your answer. No. I really don't know where he's going but I know there's a follow-up coming.
December 23, 201312 yr In the Miltary your job is to kill people, I can't equate that to someone who reads your text messages and internet history. Basically the way I see it is the more Snowden saw the more he realized how wrong it was. He saw that instead of monitoring "terror suspects" the program was actually just playing big brother or God and trying to examine your citizens every move. He saw how corrupt and unfair it was (not to mention unconstitutional) so he just finally said I'm out on this. I applaud him for that, he understood they shouldn't have the right to be doing all of that. It's not his job to decide what is right or wrong. If a soldier passed on information to the enemy because he felt it was the right thing to do what would happen to him?
December 23, 201312 yr If a soldier passed on information to the enemy because he felt it was the right thing to do what would happen to him? Lead Injection to the skull is the normal medicine for that.
December 23, 201312 yr Author It's not his job to decide what is right or wrong. If a soldier passed on information to the enemy because he felt it was the right thing to do what would happen to him? Is that example the same as what Snowden did?
December 23, 201312 yr Lead Injection to the skull is the normal medicine for that. As a government employee who handles classified information why should Snowden be treated any different?
December 23, 201312 yr Is that example the same as what Snowden did? In general terms. Didn't Snowden try to pass on information to China and Russia in exchange for safety from extradition?
December 23, 201312 yr Author As a government employee who handles classified information why should Snowden be treated any different? Which foreign enemy did he give anything to?
December 23, 201312 yr As a government employee who handles classified information why should Snowden be treated any different? I'm not saying that he should be treated differently, I was just pointing out the two different ways people are looking at this. My Personal Opinion which I haven't really given yet is that he broke the law and very rarely is that the answer. I have to think there was a way to do this, alert the American people, without releasing the secrets that he had sworn to protect. He deserves punishment for his crime.
December 23, 201312 yr Which foreign enemy did he give anything to? Speculation was that when he was in Russia he gave them digital copies of many documents as a way of getting their permission to stay in the country. Some of the info he just released out into the world all of which all of our enemies and "Friends" had access to.
December 23, 201312 yr In general terms. Didn't Snowden try to pass on information to China and Russia in exchange for safety from extradition? Yes I believe so.
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