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Originally Posted by MaDalton
when it comes to the theking/pathfinder theory of breaking an oath is more severe than breaking a law: Von Stauffenberg and his people broke their oath when they tried to blow Hitler up. Millions of soldiers excused themselves for their horrible war crimes because the they were just following orders and/or their oath to follow Hitler to whatever end. Fuck that.
We - the "civilized" western world - generally agree to basic human rights but allow to have them violated by the people we voted for and that we pay from our money every day.
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But there is a massive fucking difference here. With Hitler, they were attempting to remove a government that was killing tens of millions of people. Snowden is disclosing classified information and exposing our intelligence gathering methods and three weeks in has yet to prove anyone at the NSA or any other agency has broken the law.