What he has gone through is nothing compared to those who fought for Civil Rights. It is beyond lame to make the comparison on any equal terms.
MLK and those like him stood in the face of sanctioned brutality. They marched straight into the face of known violence. They lived everyday wondering when their time would come or their families would face harm.
Claiming Snowden would be tortured or disappeared is beyond stupid. Nutters, 9/11 conspirators, and UFO kidnappers, fall into this hyper paranoid mindset.
He is a public figure, it would be a black mark on the US government that anything violent would happen to him while in custody. There are most likely an uncountable number of rights groups who will sponsor his legal representation
>What he has gone through is nothing compared to those who fought for Civil Rights.
You're right. Thanks to the connected world we live in, Snowden was able to take his fight on the road and place himself out of reach before anything that extreme could happen. That's not to insinuate that being forced to leave your home, your family, your friends, and everything you've ever known, possibly permanently, isn't pretty terrible..
>Claiming Snowden would be tortured or disappeared is beyond stupid.
You mean like Manning wasn't? Sleep deprivation and extended solitary confinement is torture for a reason.
>He is a public figure, it would be a black mark on the US government that anything violent would happen to him while in custody.
He's only a "public figure" because he ran and was able to keep somewhat in the spotlight (partly by continually releasing information). When's the last time you heard anything about Chelsea Manning? She's effectively "disappeared". The leaks are out of the media, efforts all for naught because nobody remembers them anymore.
And as I've spent the last 5 or so posts trying to convey, you don't need to inflict "violence" on someone in order to ruin them. Locking someone in a box with no human contact for 23 hours a day does that nicely.
MLK and those like him stood in the face of sanctioned brutality. They marched straight into the face of known violence. They lived everyday wondering when their time would come or their families would face harm.
Claiming Snowden would be tortured or disappeared is beyond stupid. Nutters, 9/11 conspirators, and UFO kidnappers, fall into this hyper paranoid mindset.
He is a public figure, it would be a black mark on the US government that anything violent would happen to him while in custody. There are most likely an uncountable number of rights groups who will sponsor his legal representation