I don’t know, even for a comic, the second to last panel is too far fetched – grouping Nazis, commies and klansmen together. It’d be like white supremacists loving Putin! Ridiculous.
It’s not like Snowden wanted to stay in Russia, but the Obama administration exerted diplomatic and economic pressures on other countries to deny him asylum. I will repeat what I said about a similar cartoon: Does Morin think that, in Russia, Snowden will have more, or less freedom than he would here in the U.S. in a Supermax prison for the rest of his life? Bradley Manning was effectively tortured – kept naked, sleep deprivation, isolation. So Snowden should come back out of principle to face a government that seeming doesn’t have any principle anymore? Snowden is a hypocrite for staying in the one country that he can stay in, but Obama, who praised whistleblowers in campaign speeches but prosecutes them with a fury, isn’t?
For those (like the cartoonist) who think Snowden is a hypocrite, please answer: do you think that in Russia Snowden will be more, or less free than spending the rest of his life in a U.S. Supermax prison?
I don’t know, even for a comic, the second to last panel is too far fetched – grouping Nazis, commies and klansmen together. It’d be like white supremacists loving Putin! Ridiculous.