Yeah, I read this nonsence. Basically the author is trying to find an excuse as to why a talented author, a winner of multiple awards for his works would come out against something as nice and progressive as Gay Marriage. So, he went out to destroy his character...... by comparing Ender to... Hitler!

Oy Vey, if this is his entire arguments to call a man an "asshat" -- these people need serious help....

Funny.. I have all Mr. Card's books, and re-read Ender's Game at least once a year, because it is a quality work that deserves to go down in history as one of the classics of American literature. In the future people will forget about Stephen King (the author of toilet-paper level trash), but they will remember Twain, Hemingway, Poe, Fitzgerald, Emerson, Hughes, Hawthorne, Whitman, Poe, Thoreau, Melville, Dickinson, Bradbury and Card.

Did anyone actually read the essay that Mr. Card wrote with clear and open mind? He is right in many aspects. Simply dismissing him as a "bigot" is rather intellectually dishonest.

The persecution of the dissent is not unique to the gay community (after all, they have been persecuted a lot longer, and now, I guess, after gay marriage is won it is time for "payback").

It seems that there are number of groups on both sides of the isle that plead for equal rights for their believes, opinions and convictions when their cause is under attack, however they are just as eager to deny the rights, prosecute their political opponents whenever opportunity arises.
The hypocrisy present across entire political spectrum, btw. Left, Right, Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, Tea-partiers and Greens, and ironically Anarchists and Libertarians.

Then remember that Robespierre ended his life on a guillotine. The executioner was executed by his own creation, Comité de salut public. Be careful what you wish for.

Which republic? First? Second? Third? Fourth? Fifth?
Which incarnation?
And who would you rather have? Robespierre, Napoleon or de Gaulle?

When the digg-boys occupy slashdot, they do not judge comments on the merrit of clear thought, rather on how much they agree or disagree with it.

Than one should consider the information lost. And than kidnapp him where he is, like Israel did Eichmann.
We should give him a very public, a show trial like Hoover did to Rosenbergs. To scare the rest of the wanna-be hero f*ckers to ever spill the motherland's secrets. After all, if it were mother Russia, or any of the current "Bolivarian Revolution" states -- he would be killed. First ass raped hard and publicly than killed.

Assange and Manning (Wikileaks in general) are financed indirectly by Russia through the third intermediaries.
Lulzsec are just a bunch of crazy hacker kids with nothing to do. Noone finances them.
Arab Spring is an American creation of the Bush administration under the Secretary of State Rice.

That is true, his girlfriend is sooooo preeeetyy..... Like that Anna-the-Russian-whore... A true femme fatale.

Here what I think they should do.... Moscow-Havana flight comes north, flies over Iceland, Greenland, then Canada, comes down South across the United States, down the Florida cost and lands in Cuba.
On the way there (when it is confirmed that Snowden is on board...) Make sure they have some sort of mechanical failure and forced to land....

Oh he will. Considering what he knows, he is probably in the basement of Sheremetyevo right now being water-boarded by heavy-set guys from Lyubyanka...
Actually... never mind. I seriously doubt that. He will probably give up all the secrets and name the names of all the American assets that he said he saw voluntarily... Because the man is no hero. He is a traitor.

Einstein besides being a hero of science, has always been an outspoken critic of Nazi Germany, and contributed to our war effort against the Japanese (you know how...)
Newton, also being a hero of science has openly questioned the teachings of the Church, even though Cambridge University (where Newton was employed) was overseen and financially dependent on the Church... He is a hero because he could have gone the way of Copernicus or at least Galileo Galilei ("Eppur si muove")...

Snowden is what we call "AN HERO"....