Edward Snowden, you say? The man who took the American spying and military apparatus, arguably the most powerful man-made force on the planet, head-on? Who left the privilege of membership within that apparatus to do so? Who gave up his freedom, personal life, material prosperity, and country to do so? Who chose to tell the public the harsh truths about malevolent abuse of official power, on behalf of liberty and justice for Americans and for the people of the world? Who unmasked himself, for all to see?
Or is the coward the man who—in contravention of constitutional responsibility—helped hand warmaking power over to small-minded tyrants? Who enabled the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the ruination of millions and the plunder of our treasury, and who then tried to pass the buck and say he didn't mean for what he voted "yea" on to actually happen? Who did so, in the most plausible explanation, to pave his own personal path to increased power?
John Kerry of the early 1970s, he of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, was no coward. He, similarly to Snowden, gave America gut-wrenching testimony about malicious government-ordered acts, horrors that many citizens did not want to be troubled with. He, like Snowden, came up against authority figures' accusations of treason and cowardice.
I guess the Senate ruined that guy.
From another brave patriot:
Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.
By Daniel Ellsberg, July 7, 2013, Washington Post