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I think it is a good thing that Edward Snowden has done, but
I must say he is personally rather tiresome on this theme.
There is no incentive for an American President to grant
Snowden a pardon. None.
I guess even American whistle-blowers come imbued with the
sense of American exceptionalism.
At any rate, Snowden certainly does.
Given the list of grotesquely violent characters in the
American military and security services, he probably should count himself lucky
he is not dead.
The real hero of our time in matters of revealing government
wrong-doing and the ugly face of war is, in my view, Chelsea Manning.
Her motives were some of the finest of which humans are
capable, the very things which keep us human, and she is suffering horribly for
her acts.
She deserves, unlike Obama, the Peace Prize.
As for Snowden, he is kind of a cold technocrat who acted
out of libertarian principles, and now wants another cold technocrat to forgive
him because he is tired of living abroad.
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