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Newsmax reports that according to according to KRC Research about 64 percent of Americans familiar with Snowden hold a negative opinion of him. However 56 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 have a positive opinion of Snowden which contrasts sharply with older age cohorts. Among those aged 35-44, some 34 percent have positive attitudes toward him. For the 45-54 age cohort, the figure is 28 percent, and it drops to 26 percent among Americans over age 55, U.S. News reported. Americans overall say by plurality that Snowden has done “more to hurt” U.S. national security (43 percent) than help it (20 percent). A similar breakdown was seen with views on whether Snowden helped or hurt efforts to combat terrorism, though the numbers flip on whether his actions will lead to greater privacy protections. “The broad support for Edward Snowden among Millennials around the world should be a message to democratic countries that change is coming,” says Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “They are a generation of digital natives who don’t want government agencies tracking them online or collecting data about their phone calls.” Opinions of millennials are particularly significant in light of January 2015 findings by the U.S. Census Bureau that they are projected to surpass the baby-boom generation as the United States’ largest living generation this year.
(Score: 1) by Bogsnoticus on Friday April 24 2015, @06:57AM
Given what happened to Chelsea Manning, do you blame him for running after he blew the whistle? The establishment has already shown that it is willing to rape the freedoms of mere peons who show them up as wrong-doers, yet the higher echelons (Petraeus) get a mere slap on the wrist for giving classified information away just so he can continue to get his dick wet.
My "attacks" on you were not attacks, they were role reversals, combined with the typical rhetoric of the flag-waving "Snowden is a traitor" crowd that you seem to be associating yourself with. You know, a role revesal where one of your supposed allies is treating everyone in your country as an enemy, performing a dragnet on all communications, infringing upon the righths of sovereign nations and their inhabitants.
The data released thus far by foreign, independant (from the US) journalists, has shown that whilst a lot of their activity was done against foreign powers, it also included violations of your own constitution, against the general public of your own nation. These foreign journalists had a public interest to let the rest of the world know that their supposed allies were not honoring the treaties that had been signed between the nation states. There are still troves of information yet to be released, much of which will no doubt detail more violations against citizens of the US. Just because they are taking the approach that other countries exist outside the US (which your politicians, and citizens tend to forget about), does not mean that only 1% of the TOTAL information only applies to your homeland.
The fact you do not seem to recognise the fact that what your government has done to everyone in the world, including you, is wrong, just goes to show how much you have drunk the home made kool aid.
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.