There has been peaceful resistance in the world for hundreds, if not thousands of years. While there is a debate between whether or not peaceful resistance does more harm than good, many people, both leaders of these resistances and laymen, have weighed in on the matter. According to figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali, peaceful resistance is necessary in order to positively impact a free society. While many reactions to peaceful resistance are negative, this negativity is often the push that society needs to make an actual change. In an article about Muhammad Ali, the writer Tom Mullen states “Imagine the lives and fortunes that could have been saved if they had just listened to a loudmouthed young boxer with a purported
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Snowden leaked confirmation that “the U.S. government, without obtaining any court warrants, routinely collects the phone logs of tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, of Americans, who have no links to terrorism whatsoever” (Cassidy). Also leaked was the fact the the N.S.A can access vast amounts of user data from U.S based Internet companies, meaning that they can receive a great deal of information about many Americans and keep it for as long as they want. While leaking this information has caused many to believe that Snowden is a traitor, he believes that he was doing the right thing because as he says,“I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things...I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under” (Cassidy). These leaks caused no harm to the American public, on the contrary it allowed society to become more aware of the unconstitutional activities that some government agencies partake in. Snowden’s leaks did not to any real damage to U.S. security, he did not reveal any contents of military plans, or algorithms used, or any identities of targeted groups or individuals, or identities of U.S. agents. The only thing leaked was proof that the government has the ability to essentially spy on the public, and was using that ability. This is a
Snowden leaked confirmation that “the U.S. government, without obtaining any court warrants, routinely collects the phone logs of tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, of Americans, who have no links to terrorism whatsoever” (Cassidy). Also leaked was the fact the the N.S.A can access vast amounts of user data from U.S based Internet companies, meaning that they can receive a great deal of information about many Americans and keep it for as long as they want. While leaking this information has caused many to believe that Snowden is a traitor, he believes that he was doing the right thing because as he says,“I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things...I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under” (Cassidy). These leaks caused no harm to the American public, on the contrary it allowed society to become more aware of the unconstitutional activities that some government agencies partake in. Snowden’s leaks did not to any real damage to U.S. security, he did not reveal any contents of military plans, or algorithms used, or any identities of targeted groups or individuals, or identities of U.S. agents. The only thing leaked was proof that the government has the ability to essentially spy on the public, and was using that ability. This is a