What a bunch of bull****.
Yes, that is exactly what you provided is.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
He is not a hero.
Without Snowden we would not even be talking about the NSA's bulk data collection program, we would not be talking about the presence of a secret court where the government obtains authorization without any sense of 4th Amendment protections for the individual, and we would also not be talking about how far our government agencies would be willing to go to spy on our on citizens and the governments of our allies.
1. Don't care what they collected or if people are talking about it. This is about the wrongness of Snowden's actions.
2. Talking about the other things you mentioned has always been done. Also irrelevant to the fact of his wrongful actions.
3. Don't care what government they spied on. It is what Governments should and will continue to do. Which is also irrelevant to the wrongness of his actions.
4. OMG! The Government collected data. The sky is falling! Not! This is not about that but about Snowdens wrong actions in releasing information he was not entitled to release.
Snowden could have chosen another avenue, he didn't. That is on him regardless of the underlying issue. He had no right to release the information he did.
Anytime someone of an IQ lower than their shoe size suggests Snowden is a traitor, what they failed to realize is they inherently call the American People enemies of the state. That is who he handed information to, the people through the media so they ultimately knew how far their government was willing to go to trade Constitutional protections for the guise of national security. You should be thanking Snowden for being willing to share with you how far Republicans and Democrats alike are willing to go in an effort to marginalize the rights of the individual. His actions reminded us that the Patriot Act is no more about patriotism than the Freedom Act is about freedoms.
The ones with low IQ's are the ones claiming he is a hero and isn't a traitor.
Nor do I care how you want to falsely spin his illegal actions. And that was not to whom he handed the information.
But if you really think he is a hero, please emulate his exact actions.
And while other IQ challenged individuals suggest that you should not care much about a right to privacy assuming you have nothing to hide, *is* saying you do not care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
Not an argument I made, so you should control your hyperbolic bs as the low IQ excrement just applies to the side you chose to argue in response to his wrongful actions.
Assuming that the OP article is right on Snowden files being compromised by Russia and China, the honest culprit at the end of the day is the US government for doing all this nonsense in the first place.
Wrong.
He is for taking and releasing information that he was not allowed to take or release.
This nonsense that has not made us any safer, but has developed one hell of a business model and political strategy model that suggests scaring the hell out of our citizens until they willingly surrender their rights for more government intrusion.
:doh
More hyperbolic nonsense.
But it is nice to know that you do not care about the damage his wrongful action caused.
To argue against what Snowden's actions have generated in conversation, and scrutiny, and push back on our government is a suggestion of not caring at all about the real non-debatable intentions of the Constitution. A limiting mechanism for the government, not the people.
Two separate issues.
This is about the wrongness of his actions, not the wrongness or legality of the collection.
That said; The people are not entitled to know everything.
A person who thinks otherwise is not being rational.
As for collection of information.
The information is going to be collected anyways.
If not by our own Government, then by another. And it is likely that we will by mutual agreements, trade and/or purchase, or spy on, to obtain.
And if obtained illegally it is not like it can be used in a US Court against a person, as it would be fruit of the poisonous tree.