Is anyone aware that Snowden made any attempts to report his concerns appropriately before choosing the course he did? I haven't heard any mention that he reported to the IG or Congress, both of which he could have legally and ethically done. Is one not supposed to exhaust other resources before taking a step of this nature? I would think that would be especially important in a case like this, when one's actions affect the well-being of an entire nation. We elect the members of Congress who permit, fund, and oversee these programs and we can vote them out of office and vote someone in who will eliminate the programs. And, as people have pointed out in this thread, this sort of scenario could be imagined and the privacy issues can be brought up (and have been and will be again) without an action like this. Doing it the legal way and accepting that your fellow citizens may not agree with you is slower and, well, Democratic. Unless there is something I don't know, Snowden seems to have gone off rather half-cocked. Sorry, but you have to fight bureaucracy the right way first to qualify as a whistleblower imo. I don't think Snowden has helped the causes of people concerned about privacy or system administrators.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Derek Balling <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 11, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Josh Smift <[email protected]> wrote: > > How much do you (and Tom) feel that way because you agree with Snowden's > > views on what "the civic good" is? > > > > Would you feel the same way (that "whistleblowers need all the help they > > can get") if his leak had been motivated by something that you could see > > why someone else might find virtuous, but which you personally find > > repugnant, with effects that he (and many many other people) saw as good, > > but which you personally saw as disastrous? > > Tough for me to say because I can't come up with an appropriate example. > I'm probably one of the most anti-authoritarian people in LOPSA, bar none, > so I'm hard pressed to come up with something that could be of the > "whistleblower" mentality but which I would be averse to. > > D > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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