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In reply to the discussion: I am getting the odd sense that some don't like Snowden because he made the establishment look bad [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)I would not call someone a coward for leaving here anymore than I would have a soviet back in my day (and I played chess at the YMCA with more than a few that fled the soviet union and never thought of them as cowards).
Maybe you haven't been paying attention but the US is not exactly the model of freedom we once stood for in the world.
More people in prison here. Wars based on lies and oil. We kill innocent people with drones and people in countries we are not even at war with. We fund and arm just about any conflict we can and don't care about the body count.
The only cowards I see are the ones hiding behind a label of national security on everything and paying their way out of being prosecuted for crimes that an ordinary person would be in jail for.