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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEdward Snowden on whistleblowers
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/edward-snowden-lot-more-now-215315562.html"Whistleblowers are elected by circumstance. Nobody self nominates to be a whistleblower because its so painful," Snowden said. "Your lives are destroyed whether you are right or wrong. This is not something people sign up for."
Snowden emphasized that he doesn't see himself as a hero or a traitor, but he had just reached the tipping point where he needed to do something.
"You have to have a greater commitment to justice than a fear of the law," Snowden said. "We all have a limit of injustice, of incivility, of inhumanity in our daily life that we can kind of accept and ignore. We turn our eyes away from the beggar on the street. We also have a breaking point and when people find that, they act."
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Edward Snowden on whistleblowers (Original Post)
grasswire
May 2015
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marym625
(17,997 posts)1. hero!
K&R
grasswire
(50,130 posts)2. word nt
grasswire
(50,130 posts)3. kick for Sunday evening nt
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)4. K and R
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)5. and a big K & R! n/t