Re:Choosing Hong Kong Is a Brilliant Move by Edward Snowden
by wilecoyote on Monday June 17, 2013 @02:22PM
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I think this is spot on, both as the interesting question and as the answer that seems most likely given what's been reported.
Defend ideals and the civil liberties that cost so much to achieve, but China or a controlled territory seems a terrible place to make that stand.
As to the quality of his choices, I think that's the actual interesting thing - not whether we can come up with some semi-plausible theory for them. Are his choices a part of some grand strategy (like the article we're discussing seems to suggest) or are they haphazard? To me, the evidence so far seems to strongly point to 'haphazard', which is very bad news both for him personally and for the cause of civil liberties which he claims as his motivation.
I'd love to be wrong about this but not quite to the point where I leave my critical faculties in my other pants.