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About Snowden.....................

Gramps

Gramps

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To me it boils down to what might've been and that being the case I would have no problem calling him "traitor" because given the options he had I would never have done what he did. A traitor is just that and the reasons are not a factor. Let's see now. What did Bush say about loyalty? Was is something about being on our side or not being? Benedict Arnold probably thought he was right, too. Nonetheless he was termed s traitor and remains that today. Snowden opted to become a traitor and his flight to avoid prosecution proves he knew he would be termed a traitor if he was caught. Fleeing to the Soviet merely adds credence to that term considering that Russia is and has been an enemy for decades on end.

gramps
 
yeah - it's hard to define patriotism as . . . .

  • failing to use existing channels to report concerns
  • fleeing to china, then russia
  • turning over thousands of unread documents to putin
 
Gramps said:
To me it boils down to what might've been and that being the case I would have no problem calling him "traitor" because given the options he had I would never have done what he did. A traitor is just that and the reasons are not a factor. Let's see now. What did Bush say about loyalty? Was is something about being on our side or not being? Benedict Arnold probably thought he was right, too. Nonetheless he was termed s traitor and remains that today. Snowden opted to become a traitor and his flight to avoid prosecution proves he knew he would be termed a traitor if he was caught. Fleeing to the Soviet merely adds credence to that term considering that Russia is and has been an enemy for decades on end.

gramps
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Interesting that the man would be considered a traitor because he revealed that our gov't has been involved in illegal activities. Kind of shooting the messenger there.

Ironically, police informants actually get away with crimes in exchange for giving information on other criminals. I used to know one and it made me pretty sick since I knew about some of the things he did.
 
Boltlady said:
Interesting that the man would be considered a traitor because he revealed that our gov't has been involved in illegal activities. Kind of shooting the messenger there.

Ironically, police informants actually get away with crimes in exchange for giving information on other criminals. I used to know one and it made me pretty sick since I knew about some of the things he did.
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Well, Bolt, it's the definition of the word that betrays his intentions of any excuse for what he did. That is the point.

gramps
 
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