We are a nation of laws. Martin Luther King broke laws in the segregationist south to protest the discriminatory practices that were in place; he was also arrested. The same applies for Gandhi in India. Now I’m not comparing Snowden to King or Gandhi, but they were arrested, they took their lumps protesting unjust laws. From what I’ve read so far, Snowden, who unlike Bradley Manning, did not put American troops in danger with his releases but only informed the public what the NSA, and by extension the government, was up to involving information gathering. Edward Snowden needs to own up to it