re: #3 Charles Johnson

Remember the articles about Snowden’s “doomsday” cache, that would be released if something “happened” to him?

Whether it’s true or not, the idea of him even making the claim/threat is so mind-bogglingly stupid it defies description.

The “dead man’s switch” bullshit is essentially a huge advertisement to any enemy of the US anywhere in the world, be it a terrorist group, drug cartel, hostile foreign government (or ambitious ‘rogue actors’ therein), street gang, town drunk who owns more Ayn Rand novels than pants, or Joker type who just wants to watch the world burn, that all they have to do to cause (what he claims would be) tremendous damage and calamity to the US is to simply fill him full of lead (or polonium).

And because he is Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius, he runs away to countries that are notorious for having wildly corrupt (and corruptible) police and security forces, whom I guess he somehow figures have some sort of special ‘respect’ for him?

I admit I couldn’t stomach his entire “open letter” to Brazil, but after the first two paragraphs I’m pretty well convinced that he genuinely believes he is the single most important person in the world.