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> who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans.

That's how corrupt the system is. You get punished for revealing crimes against everyone.

Who is going to erect statues for him and people like him?




We could do it. We could fundraise to cast a bronze of him and put it anywhere we like. It wouldn't take that many people or that much time, in the grand scheme of things.

Actually, the world might be a nicer place with more statues and less goofy abstract modernist art in public for even more money than bronzes.


Put it right in the middle of Trump's "National Garden of American Heroes"[1] He'd love that. Ha!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Garden_of_American_He...


> Who is going to erect statues for him and people like him?

Usually, one has to kill some people to have a statue erected for him. /s




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