Noah Rayman writes for world.time.com that “NSA leaker Edward Snowden has burned through his savings and is almost out of money…”
frizztext: “I’m ashamed that Europe, especially Germany, used Snowden’s courage and moral for free when he described the NSA practice, but not a single European nation offers now a correct asylum. He is a hero like Immanuel Kant or Albert Einstein, Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, fighting for human rights!”
Read more: Edward Snowden: NSA Leaker’s Lawyer Says He’s Almost Out of Money | TIME.com http://world.time.com/2013/11/12/edward-snowden-is-almost-broke/#ixzz2kd0jrjoe
related:
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/discussing-edward-snowden/
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/wanted/
“Snowden is a thinker with moral like an Immanuel Kant. It takes time till every country follows his advice – but that’s the fate of thinkers: they have to wait till understanding follows …”
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-i-dont-want-to-live-in-a-society-that-does-these-sort-of-things/
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/obama-spying-on-merkel/
http://euzicasa.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/edward-snowden-appears-at-moscow-airport-and-renews-russia-asylum-claim-live-world-news-guardian-co-uk/
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/kant-snowden/
Thinkers have always been treated disrespectfully by the cliques of power rather than honored.
Flickr Comments 
Couldn’t agree more
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You’ve made a great point Frizz…
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What about the Guardian, they actually made money, they should support him financially
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and the German news magazine DER SPIEGEL – and all the European IT companies which will found European mail-server and social-networks which are not connected with US companies …
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I’m sure he could make a buck if he wrote up his story into book form.
If he could find an agent.
If he could find a publisher.
If he could find a printer.
If he could find shops willing to carry such a hot item (if it ever made it into print).
He upset Uncle Sam and the nice folks in The Land Of The Free. Not good. In fact it shows a singular lack of judgement (or even basic survival instincts) — and he knows better than to try electronic publishing. Maybe he’s a plucked duck after all; a hero yes, but stuffed nonetheless.
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