> Perhaps it's also asking too much, but - IMO - if he really wanted to make a statement with full moral authority he could have just pulled a Socrates and stood trial here in the US.
I hope you hold yourself to such standards. Otherwise you are just a hypocrite[1].
Definition: 1. :a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion. 2. : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings.
p.s. He is an imperfect human being. His life is already destroyed and yet you demand that he puts himself to nothing less than the same mistreatment as Bradley Manning (or worse) else you dismiss him? Aren't you full of yourself.
I hope you realize that I'm giving you the exact same treatment that you are giving Snowden so the irony is not lost in me. How does it feel?
>>you can bet these people are still 4 steps ahead, planning and plotting their next move.
Who? The government? That is like believing that super advanced weapons have been developed by the government that no other scientist/engineers could hope to replicate because the Science and technology are so ahead of their time (i.e. 50 or 100 years).
Go ahead and create another petition that asks for Edward Snowden not to be pardoned and to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and I bet that it hardly gets any signatures.
Edit: This is a response to several of the replies. I'm assuming of course that nobody within the government would game the petition system. If we've gotten to the point were they would impersonate people in a petition to the white house then I guess we are pretty much doomed.
I hope you hold yourself to such standards. Otherwise you are just a hypocrite[1].
[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypocrite
Definition: 1. :a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion. 2. : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings.
p.s. He is an imperfect human being. His life is already destroyed and yet you demand that he puts himself to nothing less than the same mistreatment as Bradley Manning (or worse) else you dismiss him? Aren't you full of yourself.
I hope you realize that I'm giving you the exact same treatment that you are giving Snowden so the irony is not lost in me. How does it feel?