What If Edward Snowden Never Blew The Whistle On The N. S.

Imagine a society in which there was no acts of civil disobedience. People of all different ethnicities, backgrounds, and walks of life, all keeping quiet about their opposition to laws and regulations passed by their governments. Without anyone to speak up and be the voice for others in such a society, nothing would ever change, and people would be forced to suffer silently while their government passed any laws it saw fit. A world where people never exercise their right to peaceful resistance would negatively impact a free society by preventing the society from progressing in a way that is beneficial to the people in it. The true purpose of government is not to prohibit people from their freedoms, but to serve the people for the …show more content…
What if Martin Luther King Jr. never gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech, and instead just kept his dream to himself? What if Edward Snowden never blew the whistle on the N.S.A. invading American's privacy? What if the LGBT community of the United States relinquished their fight for equality and settled for marriage laws that prevented them from being able to express their love freely through holy matrimony? Without peaceful resistance to the law and status quo, progress would come to a halt. Civil disobedience is the oil in the machine of progress, and without it, many old laws would still be in effect. If African Americans never stood up and fought effortlessly and tirelessly for their liberties and rights, we would still live in a world where the Jim Crow laws were in effect and segregation would be the norm. If Edward Snowden never revealed the wrongdoings of the N.S.A., millions of Americans across the country would still be under the invasive surveillance of the association without any knowledge of it. If the LGBT population gave up their uphill battle for equality, thousands of couples would still be unable to marry, no matter how pure and real their love