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Edward Snowden's A Letter From A Birmingham Jail

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A peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society showing that information will always and forever be free to everyone and that civil disobedience can set people free in a just nation. In this current age, information always seems to be locked away from the populace. In other words, the populace only gets to know what is deemed safe and secure by the federal government. For civilians who want to know more they get shooed away. Through this phenomenon, muckrakers and whistle-blowers have come to the forefront to provide the people with the information that is so often gated away. No other person in the world is more famous for this in recent memory than Edward Snowden. Snowden, former NSA associate, leaked thousands of documents pertaining to the surveillance of American citizens. This broke numerous laws and turned Snowden in a criminal. This transgression was deemed so horrible by the government that he had to flee the United States if he valued his freedom. Snowden's fearless action showed that …show more content…

This is represented by Martin Luther King Jr better than no any other. In "A Letter from a Birmingham Jail", MLK reflects on his life so far as to defend it against people who condemn him for his actions. Martin deflects these criticisms by saying "an unjust law is no law at all." This fully characterizes MLK as a man who believes in laws, but doesn't believe in laws that intentionally target specific groups of people for no reason. So it becomes one's duty to protest against these laws in a productive and meaningful way culminating in civil disobedience. Civil disobedience shows how protestors can be peaceful and governments can be violent. Civil disobedience exposes the dastardly under-workings of people that intend to keep others bounded and submissive. Civil disobedience gives a passive resilient face to the body of protest that can be mobilized to create a real and lasting change in

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