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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (101534)	6/24/2013 6:01:45 PM
From: Snowshoe	1 Recommendation Recommended By see clearly now Respond to of 218931

Snowden finds freedom in Russia...

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (101534)	6/24/2013 6:23:58 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218931

Snowden is a naive kid who didn't realize HK would lock him up and take away his computer... Hasty Exit Started With Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout nytimes.com Albert Ho, one of Mr. Snowden’s lawyers, said that before the Tuesday night dinner began, Mr. Snowden insisted that everyone hide their cellphones in the refrigerator of the home where he was staying, to block any eavesdropping. Then began a two-hour conversation during which Mr. Snowden was deeply dismayed to learn that he could spend years in prison without access to a computer during litigation over whether he would be granted asylum here or surrendered to the United States, Mr. Ho said. Staying cooped up in the cramped Hong Kong home of a local supporter was less bothersome to Mr. Snowden than the prospect of losing his computer. “He didn’t go out, he spent all his time inside a tiny space, but he said it was O.K. because he had his computer,” Mr. Ho said. “If you were to deprive him of his computer, that would be totally intolerable.”

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (101534)	6/24/2013 11:43:33 PM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Recommended By Paxb2u Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218931

It's curious.... Reviewing this conversation, it appears that people like me recognize better the complexities of the issue... and speak in terms of live contradictions and paradoxes. Otoh, your thinking is straightforward -- privates, like Manning, and smart guy IT technicians like Snowden - owe it to themselves to steal and publish thousands of pages of secrets - why? because, in their opinion, that is the right thing to do. Anyway, IMHO, the IRS scandal is far more important. Using government employee thugs to scare people away from expressing their political views may not be sexy and high tech, but it is far more immediately damaging to our political culture - and to freedom. Snowden was the best thing that could have happened to the corrupters of the IRS.