The US should tell Russia that Edward Snowden is Gay so that Russia will arrest+deport him

Nice plan, Pro, but it'll never workAs Pro said in round 1, the debate's title is pretty self explanatory. Nevertheless, thanks for laying it out in more detail. Let's take on your last argument first. Pro: Snowden kinda does look like a gay guyCon: Uh, what?I don't know which decade Pro is living in but this is what gay guys look like in the 21st century. http://www.debate.org...And here's our friend Ed:http://www.debate.org...Not really a match. The stereotype of the scrawny, pale, weak gay man may still have some currency amongst certain insulated segments of straight, male culture but the gay men that most people interact with are body-obsessed gym rats. Go to your local tanning salon this weekend, count the percentage of guys with $60 haircuts, and then come back and tell us what a gay guy looks like. Here's more Ed:http://www.debate.org...Notice a theme developing? Edward Snowden always wears grey. How many gay men do you know that only wear grey? Oh, right you don't know any gay men. And a grey Hawaiian shirt? Girlfriend, no. In short, only a straight guy would think Snowden looks gay, which bring me to my 2nd point. Pro: Russia currently hates gays more then anything elseCon: That's because Russia is gay as f*ckRussia inherited much of its culture from Byzantium which in turn inherited culture from Rome, to a sufficient extent that Russian kings were called Ceasar (czar) right up until the revolution. Like those cultures, medievel and rennaisance Russia defined homosexuality very differently than the rest of Europe and open homosexuality was common. "Foriegn visitors to Muscovite Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries repeatedly express their amazement at the open displays of homosexual affection among men of every class. Sigismund von Heberstein, Adam Olearius, Juraj Krizhanich, and George Turberville all write about the prevalence of homosexuality in Russia in their travel and memoir literature. The 19th century historian Sergei Soloviev writes that "nowhere, either in the Orient or in the West, was this vile, unnatural sin taken as lightly as in Russia." [1]The earliest anti-gay legislation was brought about by Peter the Great in an effort to appear more European. Although there was more legislation in the 19th century, homosexuality was far more tolerated than in America or England. The early days of the Russian Revolution were notably tolerant of gays, but the rise of Stalin put progressive views to a halt. Even so, Russia was a decade ahead of the U.S. in decriminalizing homosexuality and gays in the military. To put it succinctly, Russia is gayer than the U.S. Even more succinctly, Russia is gay as f*ck. National Drink? Vodka. (If you don't think vodka is necessarily a gay drink, check out the advertisers on RuPaul's Drag Race- vodka, vodka, blueberry vodka, vodka)National art? Faberge eggsNational theatre? Bolshoi Ballet (gay)National Music? Tchaikovsky (gay)National Sports Figures? Gymnasts and ice skaters (so gay)Greatest Russian film director?Eisenstein (gay)Russian National symbol?The bear. Here is Putin making out with one:http://www.debate.org...Favorite Russian pastime?A massage at the baths (uh huh). Here are two typical Russian menhttp://www.debate.org...The current backlash against gays in Russia is best understood not as rejection of Western permissiveness, but as a fear that Russia might already be perceived as "too gay" by the rest of the world. Where am I going with this? Since Russia is pretty gay, and nobody recognizes LGBT quite like other LGBT, nobody in Russia is going to fall for Pro's little plan. Obama:past! Vladimir. Just by the way, that Snowden guy is totally gay. Putin:fffft! Yeah, right. Besides which, when was the last time Russia believed something just because the U.S. said it was so? (Answer: Cuban Missile Crisis)Pro: Its the easiest way to get him backCon: We don't want him back. In fact, we should not give a sh*t about SnowdenFrankly, I've never understood all the hub-bub about this guy. Some people make him out to be a hero and a patriot. But heroes are willing to suffer the consequences of their actions (Daniel Ellsberg, for example, was tried twice for espionage), and patriots choose to stay in their country. Some people make Snowden out to be a traitor. But what did he really do? He was a Systems Administrator at a remote site, he wasn't an analyst or a decision maker. He had a generic top secret access, the same as 4.9 million other Americans (one out of ever 63) [2]. In other words, the U.S. never considered the existence of NSA programs like PRISM much of a secret. In fact, the U.S. shared its findings with friendly countries like Israel and the UK. The question is not "what was revealed," the question is, "yeah,so?"Mother Jones suggests that Snowden blew the whistle on 5 shocking govt secrets1. The US is bugging EU buildings and has 38 Diplomatic "targets." All diplomats are spies to some extent, and all diplomats are spied upon. Wikileaks revealed in 2010 that Hillary Clinton ordered increased spying on the UN including Work schedules, email addresses, fax numbers, website identifiers, mobile numbers, DNA, iris scans, fingerprints, as well as credit card and frequent flier numbers. She sent the order out to every US embassy with top secret clearance. [3] 2. The NSA is targeting nearly 120,000 internet users. When the Obama administration reveals aggregate numbers later this month, Snowden's number is going to look paltry. 3. The NSA receives live notifications when surveillance targets use email and chat.Well, we've known since 2008 that the NSA was transcribing live phone conversations, so how would chat be different except that the transcription is already done for the NSA? [4]4. The FBI is collecting user information via government equipment installed at tech companies.We've known this is true since Qwest's refusal to participate in 2006 (and subsequent prosecution of its CEO for tax fraud). [5]5. The NSA stores 1 billion cellphone calls daily. And here's USA Today reporting the same fact 7 years ago. [6] [7]At the end of the day, all Edward Snowden did was grab a bullhorn and shouted out stuff that everybody knew. Or at least we had no reason not to know, since everything he revealed was in the public domain. We believed his hype, but that doesn't make him extraordinary. If the US were to run after Snowden, or extradite him, or even make up a story about how gay he is, we'd only lend credence to his hype. The best policy to pursue is to act like Snowden did nothing special, because he did nothing special. He yelled some silly sh*t, ran away, and hid. Let him stay hid for all we care. In closing, here is a picture of Putin in his underwear, playing ping ping with other men in their underwearhttp://www.debate.org...[1] http://community.middlebury.edu...[2]http://www.thetakeaway.org...[3]http://www.dailymail.co.uk...[4]http://www.cnn.com...[5]http://www.nytimes.com...[6]http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...[7]http://m.motherjones.com...