respect for being the first to stand against human rights violations carried out by the powerful rather than the powerless. By refusing to compromise their principles in the face of intimidation, they have earned the respect of the world." - Edward Snowden.


Sid

didn't think out his actions, didn't put forth nearly the necessary attempt to get his concerns addressed through approved channels and has done more harm than good to any effort for human rights by giving cover to Russia.

That's what happens when you are young, think you know it all and think you are much smarter than you really are.

Russian didn't compromise her principles in the face of intimidation.

Either she stuck to her principles, which were/are corrupt and brutish as in previous decades.

Or she compromised her principles for self-gain and control.

I think Snowden and Greenwald will both go down in history as the people who gave cover to a brutal dictator as he descended towards the worst of his abuses. That's for which they both will most be remembered.

We don't know what Putin's bottom is yet, but he was KGB for a significant period (7 years) in both intelligence and counterintelligence roles during the Brezhnev years, which outside of Stalin's time were among the worst and most repressive years for Soviet Russia in the postwar period. Putin was in the KGB for 16 years in total.

I'm sure during his time in the KGB he was witness to and did many horrific things. He's not above it and I think we are going to see him revert to that behavior as things get more difficult for him.

Maybe Snowden and Greenwald will be remembered for refusing to give cover to the current US government and the legacy of the Reagan/Bush I and II dynasty...

It hampered the efforts to roll back Putin's unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine and hampered the efforts to combat Putin's repression at home. That's much worse than supposedly uncovering the NSA reading posts of any kind.

Putin is equal to or worse than Bush and Cheney in every category.

- He has engaged in several unprovoked wars of aggression
- He arrests reporters who criticize the regime or has them killed
- He has now graduated to arresting regular citizens for the crime of someone else tagging them in a Facebook post for something the taggee may have nothing to do with in the first place.

Snowden's main legacy will be the comparison between the statement in Sid's above post and Putin's dictatorial legacy which is bad now but whose depths we haven't yet seen.

When you are comparing your evil to someone else's evil and labeling yours evil-lite, you look foolish. We lost the moral high ground to tell other nations what to do after Bush. We have done nothing since to gain it back.

Many weren't even politically active. In many cases folks they barely knew in cyberspace tagged them.

That shows a paranoia about people being subversive that is light years beyond an arrest at a protest where you are released 24 hours later.

Innocent people get arrested in America everyday. Get tasered. Shot. I bet way more than in Russia.

I don't really have much energy to muster up any moral outrage for Putin's actions when so many American injustices are never addressed.

The Democrats who supported the neo cons and voted for the Hatriot Act and torture are far worse. They voted for the murder of over 1 million Iraqis. They've covered for the torture of human beings.

Putin is a Boy Scout compared to those American Constitution shredders. There won't ever be a war on Mother Russia. Too many Americans like me offering fanatical resistance.

No credit to Americans like you who assume any distaste for Putin means advocating for war.

and as you noted a completely incorrect one.

I've seen the lies and the mission creepazoid that the neo-cons employ to get their way. Furthermore, I know they could care less about the results for the lower and middle classes. We are not going to let neo-con forces suicide our nation.

How do you know what the results of such provocations will be concerning the Russians? They might conclude a first strike is the only way to stop us. Kiev isn't very far from Moscow but I guess you'd have to be a Muscovite to appreciate the provocation.

Cuba's only 90 miles from Florida and we have about as much right meddling in internal Cuban affairs as Russia has in Ukraine--that is, zero.

When the Ruskies were involved in Cuba and had missiles pointed at NY and Washington, America did freak out over that provocation. I've heard people on this site try and say we should give those Nazi goosesteppers in Kiev, "their nuclear weapons back." There seems to be a lot of carry over from the Cold War around here, people willing to hate Russia, not because of what they are doing now, but the old jingoistic feelings from the past they got from Grandad and Dad. What Russia is doing now is a hate crime, its wrong and it won't work. I'm sure they are cracking down on social media because that's where they see the activism coming from. They kicked out the foreign activists, and now they are limiting their activity on social media. I hope that makes my position clear. I don't believe these color revolutions are productive anymore, just look at the Nazi imagery, RT didn't make that up.








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if he thinks Russia has the "respect of the world".

Hope he enjoys his new life in a fascist, totalitarian state.

Their attempts to explain this away should provide lots of amusement.

or RT or similar sources.

I'm expecting them to claim Vychigina doesn't exist, and is a false person created by Ukraine.

/Pootlickers

LMAO

His last Tweet remotely related was a post about Snowden's allegations regarding the NSA. Nothing about Russia's recent censorship and repression.

Putin is great, he is just looking out for his people from the evil NATO zombie people.

claim that. You know it's coming.

super secret embedded RT report that explains it all

lol

media source.