Re:Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic h...
by marcusverus on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @10:24AM
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> I wouldn't call it a "tremendous sacrifice" then.
Moving 10K miles away from you family and friends, never to return home isn't a tremendous sacrifice? Living the rest of your life in fear of being snatched up or murdered by the CIA isn't a tremendous sacrifice? Okay, dude.
> It would have been had he decided to face trial
It's only a sacrifice if you submit corrupt justice? Yikes.
> or at least not flee to a country that is the historical enemy of the US...
This is the best option to avoid extradition, as you well know.
> ...with access to who knows how many copies of secret documents so that he could save his ass.
What a damning hypothetical!
> I don't know how a trial would have ended, but considering how much public attention he got, including many supporters, he would have had a fair trial, or at least, fair enough for the cameras.
This is weaselspeak for "we all know he wouldn't have gotten a fair trial."
> Chances are that by now, he would have served his time in prison
A decade in prison. For doing his duty.
> His actions, though undeniably human, taint his status as a hero.
Yours is the morality of a Vichy collaborator. True heroes submit to injustice? Bullshit! True heroes fight injustice and thumb their noses at corrupt centers of power.
Moving 10K miles away from you family and friends, never to return home isn't a tremendous sacrifice? Living the rest of your life in fear of being snatched up or murdered by the CIA isn't a tremendous sacrifice? Okay, dude.
> It would have been had he decided to face trial
It's only a sacrifice if you submit corrupt justice? Yikes.
> or at least not flee to a country that is the historical enemy of the US...
This is the best option to avoid extradition, as you well know.
> ...with access to who knows how many copies of secret documents so that he could save his ass.
What a damning hypothetical!
> I don't know how a trial would have ended, but considering how much public attention he got, including many supporters, he would have had a fair trial, or at least, fair enough for the cameras.
This is weaselspeak for "we all know he wouldn't have gotten a fair trial."
> Chances are that by now, he would have served his time in prison
A decade in prison. For doing his duty.
> His actions, though undeniably human, taint his status as a hero.
Yours is the morality of a Vichy collaborator. True heroes submit to injustice? Bullshit! True heroes fight injustice and thumb their noses at corrupt centers of power.