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In reply to the discussion: Fuck... Another Hero Down The Tubes... Must Want His Chops Back... [View all]Lint Head
(15,064 posts)wrong. The law is to be interpreted. And the interpretation can depend on 'who' is defining it. Just ask the Supreme Court. The phrase, two wrongs don't make it right, is a nice sounding idiom. Defining the specific two wrongs is something else. The three strikes laws have sent people to jail for a long time yet the are now being considered as cruel and unusual and soon to be changed. I think Snowden may have broken laws but by doing so has changed the conversation and caused the federal government to have hearings to change the way the NSA conducts themselves. This conversation would not be happening without his actions. He is also a whistle blower and should be protected as one. The whistle blower laws have been lobbied hard against by corporations who don't want their abuses to come to light. I guess the 'two wrongs' saying doesn't apply to them.