Thread: Edward Snowden and his stay in Russia

Originally Posted by Hanna

But he finally did one of the bravest things anyone's done in Intelligence for a long time.

Say what you will, but the thing he did has always been called treason. In every country at every time. I disapprove even though he was betraying our opponents.

Originally Posted by Ramil

Say what you will, but the thing he did has always been called treason. In every country at every time. I disapprove even though he was betraying our opponents.

Wouldn't you want to know, if your country was doing this kind of stuff? I would!

There is a border line where morality and decency kicks in and overrides patriotism, I think.

Do you think Solzhenitsyn was a traitor for writing "The Gulag Archipelago" and "Ivan Denisovitj", and clearing off to the USA?

And another example, different, but with a parallel: That officer who tried to kill Hitler? I'd say he was a German patriot.