They are three individuals (of many more) who sacrificed their own lives and well being for the sake of others, and in doing so have all ended up imprisoned one way or another. Manning is literally in a concrete hole somewhere, and most likely will be for the rest of his life. Assange is still in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, he's been in there since June 2012 and will most likely remain there for the rest of his life, if not tens of years. The surveillance operation to keep tabs on him is allegedly costing the tax payer roughly 8 million a year.
And Edward Snowden is in Russia; I highly doubt the Russian government will ever allow him to leave as they wouldn't want him falling back into the hands of the US, I imagine they want to keep the upper hand in regards to intelligence and keep the Americans unaware of how much he has actually told them.
The American people should have made Snowden the president after what he did. The courage to throw himself into the cogs of the biggest and most ruthless war machine the world has ever known, in hope of stopping it, is beyond admirable.
The entire system could collapse if others in positions of power and knowledge followed suit and told the world all the wrongdoings they know are going on. Snowden' leaks shows that GCHQ and the NSA have been capturing and saving millions of internet user's personal images via the webcams on their computers, and spying on them through the microphones. Even the Guardian had promoted comments below their article the other day when I was reading it saying 'If people don't care about this, then that really is it. If they will put up with that they will put up with anything.' And the bad thing is, I honestly think people won't care. People feel powerless to change anything. Spectators rather than participators.
What will it take to change out mind state?
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