Snowden deserves our thanks for revealing world of surveillance

PRESUMABLY, if Edward Snowden ever returns to America, or is captured and brought there, he will meet at least the same fate as Jim Larkin.

That’s not ok, and right now, it seems, a majority of Americans think it’s not ok. Voices all over the world must be raised in defence of Edward Snowden. It’s more of him we need, not less.

Edward Snowden has revealed a great deal about the power wielded in secret by elements of the American state, with the support of the president we have all admired. For that, Snowden has been told he wants to destroy his country, and the world has been promised that he will be hunted down and held to account for his “crimes”.