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Comment Re:Hey (Score 4, Insightful) 535

It all comes down to definitions... I regard myself as both as I regard them two answers on two different (but related) questions.

When someone asks me wether god (pick your favorit) exists I answer 'I don't know' since I have no proof either way. This is the agnostic part.
When someone asks me wether I believe in god (pick any flavour), I answer 'No' since I don't see any reason to blindly put my faith in any of the various religions. This is the atheist part.

Comment Re:Just because you don't like the law... (Score 3, Interesting) 411

Gandhi had been arrested before, and this had proven to work out for his cause. He made a judgemend call that being arrested would work out again.
In Snowden's case the opposite might verry well be true, and he obviously made a different choice.

However the main point still stands: both broke a law (both viewing it as justified). They also both publicly admitted what they did and why.

Comment Re:Seriously? I mean seriously? (Score 4, Insightful) 411

No you and parent still don't get it.
And your selective quoting is a big hint.
I never said that Russia looks better as a whole. (Re-read those first five words again, better yet do it a few tims).
As for the sentence you qouted: it also contained the words 'IN THIS CASE' which you conveniently left out.

To make it a little bit easier for those who still don't get it:
-Russia bad
-Russia looking better than US in regard to Snowden.

Comment Re:Just because you don't like the law... (Score 4, Insightful) 411

In 1930 India was still under Britsh rule and it was forbidden to produce your own salt. This was the law.
Some indian guy thought this law was morally and ethically wrong and marched to the sea and produced his own salt.

Back then types like you when all nuts with 'He broke the law!'.
Today very few would argue that what Ghandi did was wrong.

Is the case against Snowden exactly the same? No, if only because the most brilliant part of Ghandi's actions were its shear simplicity.
But it does show that breaking the Law, no matter who wrote it, is not by definition the wrong thing to do.

Comment Re:Gone (Score 5, Insightful) 411

I don't know if Snowden likes those countries anymore than you, however if you want to get away from the US government it isn't a bad move to go to those coutnries least likely to turn you over....

As for Latin America.... compared to the US just about any country could be called 'leftist'. For me (as I am not an American) that doesn't necesseraly mean a bad thing.
Especially since most of those 'leftist' regimes have been democraticly chosen and have replaced US backed rightwing dictators.

Comment Re:Gone (Score 5, Insightful) 411

No, it definitly is not.
And that is why it is so sad to see that the nation that just can't stop telling how free and great they are comes of looking worse than the Russians.
The Russians might just do it to simply piss off the US, but a trully free and just country should not have any problems winning this PR battle.

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