Snowden Leaves Hong Kong on Commercial Flight to Moscow
Man, how times have changed. I was born in the 70s and the US was the country you would run <i>to</i> to escape retribution for whistleblowing you did back home. (†)<p>For Snowden to be running to Russia to escape extradition from Hong Kong (!) is just fucking bizarro world for me. It is actually quite jarring. I don't trust Russia at all. But even thinking about it forces one to ask whether one trusts the USA. The answer to that is pretty jarring, too.<p>(†) I'm not making a right/wrong judgement about his actions. He blew a whistle, a whistle he thought needed to be blown. In my opinion that is a necessary check on state power and is a defence in and of itself.