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'Can you hear me now?' Snowden joins Twitter, follows NSA

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Snowden=HERO.

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Snowden is following just one account: tweets from the National Security Agency.

And I bet the NSA are following Snowden too... though in more mays than just on Twitter. :)

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Traitor. This guy is loser. He has nowhere to go.

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Traitor.

He's the exact opposite of a traitor. He sacrificed his ability to live in his own country, for the sake of the people of his country. The guy is a hero, and in the true sense of the word, not the American sense of the word. People should be praising him, and condemning the American government for not letting him come home, not attacking him. He's a whistleblower against a corrupt state.

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He gave secrets to Russia and China, something he didn't have to do. You should also check out some of the PR things he's done for Russia and Putin, enough to make journalists and pro-democracy advocates in Moscow vomit up their lunch. Again, he didn't have to do that. But he did.

He wants to expose things, but he also wants to be safe and famous. His choice.

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The Russian security service is likely keeping tabs on him and violating his privacy right now, but he's not complaining.

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He gave secrets to Russia and China, something he didn't have to do.

@SuperLib Please explain.

What I want to know is why you think he had much choice in anything once he started down the whistle blower road.

You think he would have a been a better person to allow himself to wind up like Bradley Manning or something? Or Julian Assange?

Snowden has done something neither of them could do, and that is be a whistle blower and maintain some degree of freedom.

What do you expect? The moral equivalent of jumping on a grenade to be a patriot?

I will tell you one thing for sure: There two kinds of Americans called patriots; those who are patriots for the government and those who are patriots for the people. You can't be both anymore, if you ever could. I will take a patriot for the people any day. The U.S. government should be dismantled and rebuilt from scratch. Its that horrible, corrupt and detrimental to the people of America and the world. And its only going to get worse.

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Snowden isn't exactly what I'd call a traitor nor a hero. He could have been smarter about what he did, but at the same time when there are folks in the US government that can easily make your life a living hell, and have the resources to do a character assassination as they see fit we end up with Snowden's current situation. He tried to be a whistleblower (and he wasn't the only one), but didn't think through fully on how to do so. Going to China and then Russia wasn't the brightest way to do that. He should have at least tried Mexico or even NZ or something.

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He should have at least tried Mexico or even NZ or something.

@HonestDictator HAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa....................................sdfgbghjmk,./

Sorry. I fell off the keyboard laughing.

"or something" Yeah. "Or something". Snowden was working alone. He had no help. He had limited resources. You know, even a movie hero like James Bond has a whole organization behind him. Snowden had only himself, against one of the most powerful clandestine organizations in the world, if not THE most powerful. He had sort everything out by himself while even well know whistle blowing journalists ignored him because his encryption techniques were "too much trouble".

The man is a hero. Even calling him something in between is an insult. There is only so much one man can do. Its no wonder we have so few heroes these days with people expecting nothing short of movie perfection.

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