There is a reason good ol' Yin is banned from the news. I'd love to answer your question my friend but I gotta go slurp down some anxiety meds! Lol!
Edward Snowden -- patriot or traitor? Should he be allowed to go home?
When Gerald Seymour said, in 1975, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter", he was positing that much depends on who is doing the labeling.
On one hand, we have Snowden spilling high secrets of the US Intelligence apparatus, in violation of federal laws, possibly endangering American lives (though we may never know this for sure).
On the other hand, we have a deeply resentful Snowden exposing the NSA's covert (and since ruled unconstitutional) practices of routinely violating the privacy rights of US citizens. How the Gestapo or the KGB would have longed for such capabilities, the comparisons are practically unavoidable.
With great power comes great responsibility, let's ask- who failed that correlation more?
By comparison, more people have died directly due to Hillary Clinton's purposeful inaction than by any of Edward Snowden's actions. I call Snowden a wayward hero, though he erred greatly in the process. If Clinton can go home, so should Snowden.
Once he started reporting about listening in to other countries and how it was done, he became a traitor.
Interesting question, Didge.
I consider him a traitor (a term of extreme disapproval in my mind), although I'm not sure I'm technically correct.
(The Treason Clause applies only to disloyal acts committed during times of war. Acts of dis-loyalty during peacetime are not considered treasonous under the Constitution.)
By all means, bring him home---and let a jury decide what he is.
