| JoeFlex said: I would love to hear from the people who see him as a coward or 'snitch' (traitor), but I imagine they would prefer to keep their anonymity on the matter. A pity ... it would make for interesting discussion. |
I voted for snitch but I don't view him in negative light. I voted snitch because he snitched on the government. A snitch is a very negative word when it comes to snitching to the cops (organized crime). However, I view the word snitch to what he did (snitch on government spying) in a positive light. You basically didn't have good enough poll choices for me to pick from. I don't view him as a hero nor a traitor. I view him as someone who exposed an overreaching spying program that has a 51% probability to determine that you are a citizen and not foreign. They might as well attach Social Security numbers to IP addresses. Maybe then the USA government could more easily tell if you are a citizen or not. FBI has wanted to tap into personal email for a long time (since 9/11 and probably before). The whole NSA program didn't surprise me one bit even though they are supposed to only monitor foreign communications (they might as well move the program to the FBI). A majority of USA citizens and elected officials were willing to give up their freedoms after 9/11 all in the name of national security. I knew shit was coming or already in place. At least most news channels (probably not Fox News) stopped reporting the stupid color levels of national security threat. We are in orange!!! Wait we are in red!!! Watch out! Be afraid... I mean keep watching Fox News.
