{"id":20205,"date":"2015-10-14T22:38:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T02:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hlrecord.org\/?p=20205"},"modified":"2015-10-14T22:55:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T02:55:22","slug":"to-hillary-clinton-snowden-is-a-traitor-and-a-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlrecord.org\/to-hillary-clinton-snowden-is-a-traitor-and-a-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"To Hillary Clinton: Snowden Is a Traitor \u2014 and a Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an inane question it was to ask, at the CNN Democratic debate, whether Edward Snowden is either a “hero” or a “traitor.” And what a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/democratic-debate-edward-snowden-2015-10\" target=\"_hplink\">shameful response from Hillary Clinton<\/a> and every candidate aside from Bernie, whose implicit response was the only nuanced one: Snowden is <em>both<\/em> a hero <em>and<\/em> a traitor. He broke U.S. law to reveal our government’s <em>own<\/em> breaking of U.S. law. Traitors can be heroes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>How revealing that the perpetrators of mass surveillance violating the Fourth Amendment <span class=\"st\" data-hveid=\"49\">\u2014<\/span> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nsa-surveillance-authorization-came-from-cheneys-attorney-2014-5\" target=\"_hplink\">Cheney<\/a> on down <span class=\"st\" data-hveid=\"49\">\u2014<\/span> don’t have to deal with the “traitor” question. That in CNN debates, in the mass media, this grand stigma <span class=\"st\" data-hveid=\"49\">\u2014<\/span> traitor <span class=\"st\" data-hveid=\"49\">\u2014<\/span> is reserved only for whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Does not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nsa-surveillance-authorization-came-from-cheneys-attorney-2014-5\" target=\"_hplink\">subverting a key provision of the U.S. Constitution<\/a> mean one is turning his back on our country’s values? By contrast, doesn’t revealing government overreach, intentional subversion of the values contained within our most cherished document, make one anything <em>but <\/em>a traitor? A <em>patriot<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Snowden, if he ever returns to the United States, will be prosecuted. He will, in Clinton’s words, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/democratic-debate-edward-snowden-2015-10\" target=\"_hplink\">“face the music.”<\/a> Acts of civil disobedience demand sacrifice; to change the law by breaking the law, one incurs moral responsibility, as great men from Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King, Jr. were only too aware of.<\/p>\n<p>But let us not equate being labeled a criminal with being immoral. Let us not say that those who break the law cannot be heroes. The fugitive slaves who fled the South in antebellum America broke the law; so did the whites who facilitated the Underground Railroad. Yet they <span class=\"st\" data-hveid=\"49\">\u2014<\/span> the fugitive slaves, the white lawbreakers <span class=\"st\" data-hveid=\"49\">\u2014<\/span> were heroes. In every sense of the term.<\/p>\n<p>To Hillary Clinton: Snowden is a traitor <span class=\"st\" data-hveid=\"49\">\u2014<\/span> and a hero.<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mike-shammas\/to-hillary-clinton-snowde_b_8291044.html\">Huffington Post.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an inane question it was to ask, at the CNN Democratic debate, whether Edward Snowden is either a “hero” or a “traitor.” And what a shameful response from Hillary Clinton and every candidate aside from Bernie, whose implicit response was the only nuanced one: Snowden is both a hero and a traitor. 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