n New York, a team of activists and lawyers is working for Edward Snowden. And on the 19th floor of their office he is always there in the form of a robot with a camera “eye” which Snowden controls remotely from Moscow. Our reporter Julia Prosinger visited for a week – and the whistleblower helped her in an extraordinary situation.

"NSA. National Supermarket Association."
In the offices next to Wizner’s open door, young high-flyers with degrees from Harvard and Yale sit at their desks. They have posters on their office walls: “Disagreement is patriotic” and “Being a Muslim and praying is no offence”. A sign shows the way to the gender-neutral toilet on the 18th floor. Since 9/11, Wizner has been fighting against restrictions to civil rights and liberties which arrived with the attack and gave ACLU a lot of new cases. The door of a colleague has a framed plastic bag stuck to it which says: NSA. “National Supermarket Association”.


http://www.tagesspiegel.de/weltspiegel/in-english/edward-snowden-and-his-team-nsa-national-supermarket-association-/10013120-3.html

...that the epilepsy induced a dramatic personality change in Snowden.

Previously on DU, it was implied that epilepsy was akin to mental illness.

I guess we are back in the 1800s here on DU.

cannot disgrace itself further.

Sewer tactics reveal the character of those who use them. The desperation to divert from the mass government abuse of power Snowden revealed is palpable.

that was sick.

I told them I wouldn't respond, and I won't, but I am reading the thread. It's sad how hard MADem is trying to slam me to get me to say something back, but I refuse to have a dialogue with someone that has apparently decided that attacking a large swath of people with a medical disorder is a valid and sensible position to take in the crusade against anyone who criticizes anything the Obama administration has ever been involved in.

...it was the middle of the night for me and I had gone back to bed.

This happened before, recently. Implied that epilepsy was mental illness (referring to Snowden). As the mother of an adult child with seizure disorder (epilepsy), I was exceptionally offended then, too.

They smeared everyone with epilepsy as unstable, then doubled down on it and got offended that I pointed out how despicable it was.

I don't fraternize with cruel people in real life, and I decided not to here.

Kids are off-limits; I imagine he'd say the same about (supposed) medical conditions (whether McCain, Romney or Snowden).

Of course, that's completely lost on The Swarm, who could learn a thing or two about class from Obama.

And it's disgusting.

Snowden goes from "shooting traitors in the balls" to doing what he decried.

That is a huge personality change.

It may have been triggered by some medical condition.

Where did you get your medical degree again?

Some huge change there. What medical condition do you think caused that?

he had a huge personality change or not, how would that have anything to do with the facts he has revealed about law-breaking in our Govt and their Private Security Contractors?

in discussing facts (no matter how relevant), but only want to attack, even slander the messenger.

Good lord, I wonder about people on this website sometimes.

Or start a job and then become disillusioned...

Did anyone else notice that?

The time stamps on her posts... things that make you go hmmmmm

I found it, and an absolutely worse one.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2981963

They come out and claim he faked epilepsy to get drugs. How dispicable can you get?

they think it will score them political points to do so. It just doesn't put them in the best of company.

and I cannot tell you how sickened I am at this point.

Two posters in that thread essentially said that anyone with epilepsy and has had a seizure is subject to abrupt personality changes, and therefore nothing they say or do once that happens is to be trusted. They are essentially saying everyone with epilepsy is unstable and untrustworthy.

That's a fucking new low for DU, and those two should hang their damn heads in shame.

Implying that any DU'er is claiming ALL people who experience seizures have personality changes is incorrect if not out deceitful.

http://www.epilepsymatters.com/english/lwebehavioural.html

SOMETHING caused Snowden to go from "shooting traitors in the balls" to doing exactly what he was against.

.....that people at the top of the surveillance state were in defiance of The Constitution, and were lying to the American people.

Do you not understand the meaning of the word "radicalized"?

The best citizens of this country are/were those who were radicalized by their experiences, who stood up, who CHANGED, who acted differently than before.

It is the radicals who stand between us and tyranny.

He changed because he was RADICALIZED.

Even if Snowden was a mixture of Hitler and Pol Pot, it still wouldn't change the fact that the U.S. government and those of many allied countries have established a massive surveillance state that is diametrically opposed to anything resembling democratic values.

The fact that they not only defend such a smear, but double down on it is especially shocking. Even one of their own, an anti-Snowden pro-Obama type tried to change the subject because at least she realized what they were doing was hateful and disgusting.

When you go there, you will literally climb into the gutter and sling anything. There is nothing liberal or Democratic whatsoever about slandering people with epilepsy as unstable and unreliable. NOTHING.

and of Obama's parents and the man who personally talked me into supporting Obama in the 08 Primary. I just read the bullshit on that thread and I am shocked, even considering the sources. It is in fact a new low.

from those who want to at all costs defend every single thing Obama has ever touched in his life, but that? That was just plain ugly toward not only Snowden, but against people with a medical disorder. They started in about electroshock therapy even after some of the uglier comments, and I just couldn't respond to them anymore. I've read the things that they wrote, but I just can't have a dialogue with people that spew such bile.

who dared criticize Obama, has syphilis, and that he was famous for ONLY a song about a banana (I shit you not). Man, what a nasty bunch. But I'm happy to see the vast majority of DU reject it.

What is the motive for being so ugly towards certain people, and so ugly toward people on this site - people that are on the site with them and have been for many years?