An American citizen is seeking asylum in a foreign land

[sibelian]

48. He broke a law he felt had to be broken for a more ethical cause than that which the law supported.

He left the country that established that law because he felt that country would not permit to openly discuss the problem he saw.

So there you go. All you had to do was take away the NSA and he looked all different, didn't he? It's not as if the story's actually that complicated in the first place, it's just that in order to make him look like an unambiguous criminal you have to take away the idea that US security services are duplicitous and untrustworthy and have no real moral direction other than generalised advantage for themselves over everything else.

Perhaps you think the US securtiy apparatus is all nice guys and kittens and unicorns and on the side of ordinary Americans, in which case... well. It's certainly a comforting thought, isn't it?

But then, I think you knew all that. It's not like the board's been quiet about all this the past weeks.