Ellsberg: Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.

Re:Ellsberg: Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S. by Svip on Monday July 08, 2013 @06:35AM (#6006073)

You are right, they would not revolt or riot. But neither do they believe that their system is great, they are just too apathetic to do anything about it, because they are provided with too high a standard of living for them to riot; they have too much to lose.

But they would not expect Snowden to get a fair trial in their own country (if we use the scenario that he was from their country and not the USA), which is what I meant.

You can argue that this apathetic culture is worse than the Americans' naïveté. And to a point I would agree.

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Re:Ellsberg: Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S. by threeseed on Monday July 08, 2013 @09:17AM (#6006584)

Have you ever actually lived in the UK before ? Pretty sure most people wouldn't agree that their standard of living is so high that they wouldn't have something to lose by rioting.

It's more a case that most people don't consider their online activity to be as precious as some others do.

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