is Snowden's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize worst ever?

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Originally Posted by Aesthetic

Snowden is a traitor to his government. But was righteous for humanity; it's preposterous that anyone could think that's worth a nobel peace prize but for Obama to take the cake is just downright hypocritical.

Im not going to go as far as to say whistle-blowers should be hanged or imprisoned in Guantanamo. But the man did commit treason and should be punished. Though, he caused more problems than solved. I commend him for trying to do anything, who knows; The U.S. is probably still jerking every country off from that.

But of course; I lack any first hand knowledge of the situation so to say he isn't a mole tactic would be wrong of me. And really to say anything regarding well all thats come from that event would be incorrect due to my lack of inference.

how can u say he did something righteous for humanity but should be convicted of treason? u can argue that technically what he did might fall under the law for treason, but since when is the good of the government supposed to trump the good of the people? the government has committed treason on numerous occasions...snowden brought some of those to the light, tho' yes, much of it was already "known" to some extent...

the authority of the government extends only so far as it's within it's constitutional boundaries...our government hasn't been within those boundaries in decades, so by our constitution, they don't have the right to exact control over us or dictate laws or convict anyone of anything...the problem is that the american people are too lazy to overthrow the establishment...jefferson an washington woulda been done grabbed the rifle an gone to fight at this point...