Errm no. No certainly not. Not in my book. Maybe yourself but certainly not others that your supposed to care for.
You're twisting what I'm saying.
Considering what's been happening to Bradley Manning (and for what reasons) over the last year or so, have no doubt that Ed and his family will of known EXACTLY what they were letting themselves in for.
Well, not exactly, but in theory they will have decided between themselves that this was going to happen. One can obviously never truly understand the magnitude of such a decision until they felt the actual realtime impact, but they would have known exactly what was in store for them and the level of shitstorm this would generate. I would be surprised if they hadn't agreed this together.
In terms of Politics and events, this thing is fucking HUGE. Biggest thing to have happened in politics in a decade. The effects are yet to be fully appreciated. It's BIG news, it will shape future political policy and will affect relations between the differing factions of the political spectrum for a long long time. CIA, private security firms, ... huge huge huge impact.
It really is groundbreaking. The US Govnt is being placed in a position it didn't choose to be in, it's being forced to admit something it's declined to offer freely by its own admission. Something it's KEPT from its citizens
The US constitution is built upon the philosophy of maintaining freedom of the individual, and the Govnt have been officially exposed in taking part in underhand/UNDECLARED surveillance of it's people, to a nation that prides itself on being one the freest nations on earth.
This is fucking HUGE.
) but what he is trying to do is to improve the lives of literally BILLIONS of people. And save the lives of a fair few too. That's pretty frikkin heroic in my book. Perhaps the kinda heroism that is doomed to failure but at least he tried and will be remembered and respected for that for a long time to come.
