Lets not forget that "avoiding a bullet" was a prime motivator in Snowden's coming out as the leaker. US is just as happy to shoot people it doesn't like as everyone else: the drone program and the mysterious "he's coming right for us" death of one of the Boston bombers in custody are two cases in point.

coderman <coderman@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Juan Garofalo <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
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He's still loyal to the american nazis. That's praiseworthy?


he is showing extraordinary discretion and restraint, and an
underlying approval for some fundamental american ideals, like
guaranteed right to individual privacy, though of course this should
extend to the world not just US citizens.

let's not forget that Guardian was forced to move this reporting to
the USA, because of GCHQ/her majesty's interference. and of course
there are plentiful locales where the activities of anyone involved
would strongly encourage a less than discrete "summary lack of
continued living incident" of some obscure manner.

at any rate, this is too long and detailed a conversation for today.

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