Juan Cole: Top Ten Ways US TV News Screwing Us Again on NSA Surveillance Story (Iraq Redux)

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4. We can trade with Hong Kong, China and Russia but Snowden is a traitor for going there???

I don't know how many times I've seen this exact argument made on DU.

"2. Smear Snowden with ad hominem fallacies. His transit through Moscow was held up as a sign of disloyalty to the United States, as though nowadays American business people and government officials don’t transit through Moscow all the time. The US ships significant amounts of military materiel for Afghanistan through Russia. Is that treasonous?"

The posters who claim Snowden a traitor because he dare, oh my, go to Hong Kong, or a part of China, or Russia, don't declare the thousands of American born CEOs, executives and businessmen who visit there regularly and sell their slave wage crap here in the US as traitors. No it's fine and dandy to use those countries for capitalist purposes but don't let private citizens avoid becoming political prisoners by going there. Oh no that's treason.

Snowden is a hero and he has renewed my faith in America. Imagine a man who can NOT be bought.