re: Edward Snowden: Hero or Traitor?

Hero, should be given a medal, a statue, have buildings named after him...

The greatest heroes made a stand at great personal expense. Part of being a hero is sacrificing yourself, your freedom, even your life on the altar of your cause. Snowden is still alive. He's still free, he isn't in jail. He's hiding in Russia, and as someone else has said has likely divulged sensitive information to Putin. He has not faced the full consequences of his actions. That's part of being a hero. I can't call that guy a hero.

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He would have been executed otherwise.

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Eh idk if that's true

Hero

I can acknowledge that he did a courageous thing. That doesn't make someone a hero. A hero is defined by how he lives his life, not a single action.

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A hero is defined by how he lives his life, not a single action.

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How about Commander Gilmore?

Howard W. Gilmore

Howard Walter Gilmore (September 29, 1902 – February 7, 1943) was a submarine commander in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic self-sacrifice during World War II."



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Whistleblowers need to take their info to the New York Times or Washington Post and not to an international criminal and accused child molester Julian Assange.

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Hero. Exposed the true nature of these,spy programs. frick the federal govt.

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Why don't people get that?

We can't be a democracy if the people are kept in the dark about what the government does.

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Piece of shite traitor.

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80% of what he gave the Chinese and FSB had NOTHING to do with domestic collection. The damage done to the IC and the military is still being measured years later, that big.