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This piece is a reaction to the feting of Edward Snowden that has been going on all over the world. Should he be celebrated for what he has done, or, as we say in this piece, are his supporters being taken for a ride?
http://www.shadowspear.com/2014/01/why-snowden-still-sucks/
http://www.shadowspear.com/2014/01/why-snowden-still-sucks/
CIA/NSA turncoat Edward Snowden has been in the news a lot lately. He was nominated as Time’s “Person of the Year” for 2013[1] (he didn’t get it) lobbied for permanent political asylum in Germany, Russia, Ecuador and Brazil[2] (he didn’t get that either), and was listed Foreign Policy Magazine’s top “Global Thinker” for 2013.[3] Some people even want him to receive the Nobel Peace Prize[4], and given the anti-American, pacifist bent of that committee, he’ll probably get it.
Snowden himself recently issued a public “mission accomplished”[5] statement claiming his work is “already done.” With the New York Times and The Guardian newspapers now clamoring for clemency,[6] and people tripping over themselves to hold him up as some kind of hero,[7] I think it’s time to remind America why Edward Snowden still sucks. Here are three reasons why: