Unlike some of the midgets of naysayers supporting an abrogation of intellectual freedom and privacy.

1) Why should Britain do anything about the NSA? Britain is the U.S. #1 ally. Plus, Edward Snowden leaked information about Britain's own surveillance activities with the NSA. However, hypocrites Germany, and France seem to forget that Snowden outed their governments, too. The reason Germany in particular lashed out at the U.S., was to get Germans to forget that the German government is also in cahoots with the NSA. German privacy activists, tried to sue Angela Merkel, and Germany's government over their own spying activities with the NSA.

2) Edward Snowden is not a whistleblower. Just because he stole a bunch of classified documents, and leaked them, doesn't automatically make him a whistleblower. We found out recently, Edward Snowden never sent any e-mails to the NSA about any concerns he may have had about any abuse. Edward Snowden snatched all those documents, and went out of his way to cover his tracks, but didn't grab the e-mails, too? More proof that Edward Snowden is a liar.

Snowden, and his fans seem to think the fact that the NSA even exists makes it illegal, and unconstitutional. Libertarians think anything they don't like, is illegal, and a violation of their Constitutional rights. But, that's not the way it works. Some people need to grow up.

3) Even the compliance reports Edward Snowden leaked, showed that the NSA was in compliance with the law, 99% of the time. And, a lower court cannot circumvent a decision (about meta-data) that was already made by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1979. Snowden, and his fans thought they had won some kind of victory, when a lower court tried to circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court, and said that collecting meta-data was "likely unconstitutional."

First, "likely unconstitutional" is weak language, and doesn't mean unconstitutional. Second, a different federal judge came up with the opposite conclusion just a week later. The other federal judge agreed with the U.S. Supreme Court's 1979 ruling that meta-data collection is both legal, and Constitutional. But, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and their fans, ignored this federal judge's ruling.

4) It's been a year, and Edward Snowden still hasn't given any evidence, of any widespread abuse, or crimes committed by the NSA. He needs to put up, or shut up! Right now, he's just trying to keep his 15 minutes of fame from running out.

And, we share similar "western" values with them like colonialism, capitalism, and "picking up the White Man's Burden".