Someone who sacrifices everything he's got, exposes a bunch of bad things his government is doing at great personal risk to himself has definitely earned the patriot label, Snowden is doing a lot more to improve America than most of the flag waving bumper sticker crowd that happily affix that label onto themselves.
Taxes, social security and healthcare are important, but they are not more or less important than privacy on an absolute scale and they are not on the same axis to begin with. You can have a perfect police state with social security, healthcare and low taxes and 0 privacy.
Taxes, social security and healthcare are important, but they are not more or less important than privacy on an absolute scale and they are not on the same axis to begin with. You can have a perfect police state with social security, healthcare and low taxes and 0 privacy.