Prism Scandal

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What do you think about this

Almost all of us have a google account, I do not like that someone is reading my emails. In my country, the reign of the so-called communist (Służba Bezpieczeństwa) Security Service, eavesdropped on other people's phone calls and read private correspondence, but Poland, was then a communist country, but that kind of thing does the state government which is considered the homeland of modern democracy, it is simply beyond belief.

What do you think about a guy who revealed the whole affair which Edward Snowden. Do You did the right thing, in my opinion, has done well by revealing all this hypocrisy.

The next question does CIA stage his accident?
Probably not, because if he even hair from his head dropped, it would be the U.S. government fault , even if it did not have nothing to do with this, perhaps the one hand, to be celebrated with kid gloves, but on the other hand I think American government would try to go exemplary punishment and make his life miserable just as the Jews have done with Vanunu for revealing Israel's nuclear secrets.

The last question do you think Edward Snowden is traitor or hero?

I'd like to think that he and Manning (WikiLeaks guy) will be remembered in history as heroes for taking a stand, but I doubt either will really enjoy that status in their lifetimes.

I picked neither because I disagree with the way the term 'traitor' is normally used. A traitor is someone who betrays something or someone. In order for a person to betray something or someone, they need to be initially loyal to what or who they betray. Thus sociopaths can never betray anything or anyone because they have no loyalties, but they can deceive. Not that Snowden is likely to be a sociopath, but unless Snowden initially intended to protect the NSA's secrets, he never betrayed it by revealing those secrets to the public, he just deceived it. The term traitor is pretty subjective. Unless someone, who was initially loyal to something or someone, turned against what or who they were loyal to, and made a deliberate attempt to harm it, him, or her, I couldn't completely agree that they were a traitor.

I reserve the term 'hero' for anyone who directly and personally saves other people from harm or death, especially in instances where that person risks harm or death by trying to save those people. People who indirectly save other people from harm or death are righteous and idealistic, but I wouldn't consider them heroes. Snowden's actions indirectly affected the lives of other people, and the exact affect that they had and will have on those people, whether it be positive or negative, cannot be known. I cannot even be reasonably sure if his actions were ideal, never-mind if he was a hero.