Provocative Words: Rebecca Solnit writes to Edward Snowden

To my earlier question, Snowden: Hero or Criminal?, Rebecca says hero, emphatically.

From Tom’s Dispatch:

Someday you may be regarded as a Mandela of sorts for the information age, or perhaps a John Brown, someone who refused to fit in, to bow down, to make a system work that shouldn’t work, that should explode. And perhaps we’re watching it explode.

She goes further than many would, but a viewpoint worth considering. For me it’s the “trust us it’s making you safer, but, of course, we can’t tell you just how,” argument that is so unsettling, and it sort of still gets a pass from parts of the left, right, and center.