Edward Snowden, the reluctant hero

Snowden is trying to prevent the Orwellian 1984 mapped out by the powers-that-be for us puny mortals ... but instead of being thankful to the brave man,  dimwits around the world are condemning him.  
According to the dimwits, he is a traitor because he leaked government secrets.  If your blasted govt. thinks it is perfectly ok to peep into your bedroom and look at and listen to every word you say and store all the images and every syllable you utter for future use just in case you don't tow their line....and you give a pass to the govt?  I feel sorry for your damned self.  You will deserve everything adverse that the govt. does to you.  
The video below is pretty bad and the reason is because it's coming through via several proxies in order to safeguard Snowden's exact location.

Molly Hennessy-Fiske writing at LATimes:
....Fugitive secrets-leaker Edward Snowden made a rare video appearance Monday at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, condemning mass government surveillance and urging members of the tech-savvy audience to take action against it.
Speaking from Russia, where he was granted asylum, the former National Security Agency contractor said "absolutely, yes" he would leak secret government information again. Snowden has been charged with espionage for releasing a trove of intelligence-gathering secrets.

In an hour-long talk he said that the U.S. government's mass surveillance failed to catch the Boston Marathon bombers and warned that governments have created an adversarial climate on the Internet. 
"They're setting fire to the global Internet, and you guys in the room are the global firefighters," Snowden said.
Snowden appeared against a backdrop of the U.S. Constitution with "We the people" written in large letters. The video feed was broadcast on a large screen before several thousand credentialed festival attendees in two conference halls and streamed live online. 
Moderating the discussion in Austin were Snowden’s American Civil Liberties Union attorney, Ben Wizner, and Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist with the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project.
Snowden took questions from moderators and those relayed from spectators in the United States and overseas through tweets to #asksnowden. 
The first question came from Timothy John Berners-Lee, a British scientist known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, who asked Snowden how he would create an accountability system for governance.
“We have an oversight model that could work. The problem is when the overseers are not interested in oversight,” Snowden said. “The key factor is accountability.”
“We need public advocates, public representatives, public oversight,” he said, including “a watchdog that watches Congress.”
He believed the lack of accountability will have international consequences.
“If we allow the NSA to continue unrestrained, every other government will accept that as a green light to do the same,” he said............