Re: Edward Snowden Asylum To Be Offered By Venezuela,President Nicolás Maduro Says[W:
Einstein fled Nazi Germany. Saul fled Damascus. Neither are considered 'cowards.'
Why did they do so? The context is important. Because after just reading a little bit on Wikipedia about Einstein, it doesn't appear as if he fled at all, so much as renounced his German citizen in protest/anger after deciding not to return to Germany after traveling to the US. Snowden knowingly broke the law for reasons he claimed were patriotic, but then left the country so as to not face the American justice system.
Again, I don't know much about either of those situations, I'm just going by what I read on Wikipedia, which is not always the most credible or thorough of sources. Could you explain further?
WRONG
I said I did not see your original response, which I apologized for.
And you simply could have gone back to look for it, or you could have looked for the time I re-posted it (in a post you quoted, no less) and you didn't. No, instead you repeatedly asked a question you later claimed you wouldn't have read even if you had gone back over the thread because:
I doubt it.
Why waste time reading posts from people you don't respect much?
Deny it if you want, but I am not wrong. Now quit bothering me please.
1) You're not upset that I misrepresented your position (because I didn't), you're upset about the inevitable conclusions drawn from your position.
Except those are NOT the inevitable conclusions drawn from my position, which, by default, means you are misrepresenting my position.
Snowden has ZERO chance of winning a trial. He's guilty, plain and simple.
He committed the acts. It would be up to a jury of his peers to decide if he was guilty. That's the process.
Turning himself in will be volunteering to be locked in a cage forever.
No, it won't. First of all, I never said for Snowden to turn himself in, I said to stay in America and face the justice system, however it plays out. There is a difference, even if Snowden would be charged with crimes, which I agree he would. Second of all, it would be up to him and his attorney(s) to convince the jury that what he did was right, and thus, should not be penalized for his actions which benefited all Americans.
So YES, that's EXACTLY what you are saying: "If you don't want to get locked in a cage for the rest of your life, you're a coward".
And, once more, you are deliberately misrepresenting my position. And, this time, you have no excuse.
I do. I own MY position, not the position you erroneously keep ascribing to me.
If it upsets you, change your position.
My position doesn't upset me at all. Your intentionally dishonest representation of it, even after I've clarified multiple times, does.
2) LOL, "With Snowden being such a public interest story, the government would be hard pressed to try any of the dirty tricks" You're out of your mind.
No, I'm not.
The media had an equal amount of interest in Manning
Manning was in the army at the time of his arrest and is being tried in a military court. You can bring Manning up 234532758023475896732405280973 more times and it won't change the fact he and Snowden are in different situations.