Edward Snowden on whistleblowers

[grasswire]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/edward-snowden-lot-more-now-215315562.html


"Whistleblowers are elected by circumstance. Nobody self nominates to be a whistleblower because it’s so painful," Snowden said. "Your lives are destroyed whether you are right or wrong. This is not something people sign up for."

Snowden emphasized that he doesn't see himself as a hero or a traitor, but he had just reached the tipping point where he needed to do something.

"You have to have a greater commitment to justice than a fear of the law," Snowden said. "We all have a limit of injustice, of incivility, of inhumanity in our daily life that we can kind of accept and ignore. We turn our eyes away from the beggar on the street. We also have a breaking point and when people find that, they act."

[marym625]

1. hero!

K&R

[grasswire]

2. word nt

[grasswire]

3. kick for Sunday evening nt

[bigwillq]

4. K and R

[wildbilln864]

5. and a big K & R! n/t