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Come on. Snowden coughed up every thing he had in the first 48 hours. It was his rent.
So what? Once it went to a few news organizations, the Russians probably already had it by the time he arrived.
But then they couldn't ask him questions about it before he arrived...but maybe they did and his sell out happened way up the line. In any case, if you think what Trump did was wrong this was the same crime.
I don't think that whistleblowing is a crime.
There are rules to being designated a whistle-blower and he didn't follow them.
He did actually try to go through those channels, unsuccessfully, so he was left with no other choice.
That's a far cry from storming the capitol after losing the election to build an even further right state.
What matters to me is the morality of a rule (unreasonable searches, accepting loss), not the fact that a rule was broken.
He didn't get what he wanted so decided to brake the law. Does sound like Trump.
What matters to me is the morality of a rule (unreasonable searches, accepting loss), not the fact that a rule was broken.
You are not in charge of deciding the morality of law. We have courts that decide such matters. What you're really saying is that your feelings about a law is more important than the law itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_unjust_law_is_no_law_at_all
This guy: "Psshhhhh whatever, if it's not a Robocop-like fanaticism for the law, then it's feelings. I am very rational."
@explodicle yeah, @Rapidcreek's argument here hasn't really flown since before Nuremburg.
We are a nation of laws or we are not.