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Showing Original Post only (View all)Edward Snowden - closer to hero or bad actor? [View all]
If "hero" is one extreme and "bad actor" is the other, where would you place Edward Snowden after his recent actions to expose top secret U.S. government programs? Bad actor would mean that what he did wasn't a good thing, whatever the intent may have been. (Note that DU automatically gives a "pass" option.)
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http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/14/edward_snowden_is_a_patriot_ex
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Closer to hero | |
21 (81%) |
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Closer to bad actor | |
5 (19%) |
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I'm waiting for his report on the Greenpeace activists arrested by Russia before voting. nt
msanthrope
Oct 2013
#4
Definitely a bad actor, no question about it. And one that almost certainly had malicious intent....
AverageJoe90
Oct 2013
#38