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The 2012 Summer Olympics were held in London, following their home four years earlier in 2008. By most accounts, the games went off extremely well, being one of the most watched ever. Fry was part of the procession.

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Milanov is less than concerned about international reactions to his law. Immediately after news of the rule affecting the 2014 Olympics was announced abroad, Milanov held a press conference to reaffirm that athletes and spectators would be eligible for arrest and deportation.

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Fry actually visited St. Petersburg when the first of Russia’s laws began, led on the local level by Russia’s new sports minister, Vitaly Milonov. Milonov is also the author of Russia’s country-wide ban.

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Fry is…actually correct. Russia’s new anti-LGBT law not only makes it a crime to speak about homosexuality or in a way that suggests homosexuality, but has already lead police to turn a blind eye toward public beatings, assaults, and even the murder of a gay man. The law is meant to eliminate the idea of homosexuality in the country, paralleling its orthodox ideals and foundation.

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This tyrant, of course, was Adolf Hitler, who was allowed to chair that year’s Olympics with little to no discussion of his well known human rights violations. International groups labeled it a “peace building effort” and continued the games without much protest. This paralleled Hitler’s early anti-Jewish policies, which up until that point did not include Holocaust-related policies, but legalized discrimination and ostracization.

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In making this a question of “honor,” people miss the very critical issues at play in this affair.

Daniel Ellsberg was a military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers, a government review of the Vietnam War that indicated lying, contingencies, and other more scandalous features of the war. He publicly accepted trial, was acquitted, and continued to involve himself in government affairs. In fact, in an op-ed he wrote for the Guardian, Ellsberg wrote that he was of the impression “there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release of NSA material–and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago”.

This is not Ellsberg’s America.

Snowden, if he were to face trial, would not find the same fate or class as Ellsberg. First, he is likely to end up in a military or civil “ghost” prison, generally labeled “high security,” for the term of his trial and inevitable conviction. This was the fate of fellow leaker Bradley Manning. Second, the legal basis for the documents being secret is itself secret – the legal argument for the legality of FISA orders is still private. If facing a government conviction without access to the evidence being used to convict you, winning is impossible.

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A cheap insult from Leno without any base – girlfriend Lindsay Mills is a professionally trained dancer who at times explored exotic and experimental dance as part of her career. She is not a stripper.

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The President’s restraint is notable – people, from Senators to media figures, have labeled Snowden a “terrorist,” “criminal,” and worse. This includes Jay Leno, who is already well-known for his constant labeling of Snowden as a “high-school dropout.”

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That would be PRISM, of course, the NSA’s “legal” information filtering program.

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This is actually not what the State Department asked about. The Department asked that United States citizens do not travel, avoiding at all costs every possible travel through the key areas. Caution is principle and travel should be reduced.

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