[kghose]

Hi Sptix,

I agree here. If Snowden had a) stayed in the US and or b) stayed on message ("The US govt. should not spy on US citizens") he would have been credible to me.

I lost respect when he started to make statements re: the NSA's activities counter China, especially when he was hiding in China at a time when China/US talks re: espionage were taking place.

That's when I began to think, this guy is a pawn.

[tome]

I agree with you, and I'm surprised more commenters on Hacker News can't distinguish between the two activities of helping US citizens and harming the US government.

[wavefunction]

He's helping the American people, even if that "hurts" the government. The US government can take a flying leap until they return to assisting all of us instead of their friends and cronies.

[corford]

As far as staying in the US goes, rather than rehash grey-area's superb take down of this argument, I'll just point you straight to the source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928295