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by topher515
1497 days ago
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Edward Snowden is the last person we should ask to speak out against Russia. Almost every other Russia-resident who might speak out against the invasion could, the next day, show up in Madrid, Berlin, Mexico City—wherever in The West—and expect to receive political asylum. But if Snowden steps foot into Western-aligned soil then he’s just kicked off a slow, inexorable ride via extradition to American prison. As such, Snowden is more incentivized to stay silent than anyone else I can think of. An unfortunate and extremely ironic side effect of standing up for freedom against a mostly-free state is that he is forever trapped in a very-not-free despotic state. This is his punishment. Why this blogger feels he has the right to demand Snowden sacrifice himself again with likely worse consequences is inexplicable to me. |
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From his situation, USA is the most authoritarian regime in the world, and its clutches reach very far. The state crimes he exposed are still unresolved, and his prize at home for denouncing them would be solitary confinement.
Definitely the most unlikely person to endanger his precarious situation by criticizing his own protection, though.