Your reasoning presumes that countries of the world apply the same standard of 'justice' to foreign spies that they do to their own. Clearly this has proven to not be the true for China/HK and Russia.
Re:Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
by diminoten on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @12:14AM
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I'm just pointing out the problem for any country of accepting Snowden. You're saying to your people, "It's okay to leak classified documents."
If I am reading that right you are saying that justice is defined by laws - rather than the law being derived from justice.
That seems right to me. Where there is no law (be that legal, moral, spiritual, etc), there can be no injustice.
Re:Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
by icebraining on Monday July 01, 2013 @06:51PM
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diminoten seems to be talking specifically about legislation, not law in a broader sense.
That's his fundamental problem, after all. If any of the countries he intends to flee to were to have someone leak the same kind of documents that Snowden leaked about the US, that person would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the laws of that country.
So when you talk about justice, I don't think you want Snowden to receive justice, because that's a small cell for the rest of his life, or worse.