This major human rights award that has been given to such luminaries as Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela.
Representatives of the Green Parties of France and Germany said Mr. Snowden “deserves to be honored for shedding light on the systematic infringements of civil liberties by U.S. and European secret services."
Recent polls suggest that the vast majority of young Americans also think that Edward Snowden did a good thing. Do you think that he's a human rights hero?
I find this to be very difficult to interpret. Although on one hand he was providing people with the right to know how much of their information is being shared and monitored, at the same time he may have overstepped his right to freedom of speech. He violated a law by exposing private information. Because of this I still feel that I can't form a strong opinion either way about whether what he did was right or wrong.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I believe that what he did was for the benefit of the people. The way he went around it was wrong and exposing out government in a possibly harmful way wasn't right but I do think that giving us this information was important. His actions may not be justified according to the law but in my mind, I think he's more of a hero than a criminal. We have a right to know what our government is doing and I appreciate what he did. Of course, I don't appreciate that he put our government/country in danger but you have to try and weight the benefits and the disadvantages. Whatever you believe is a personal opinion.
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