Comment Re:Great news! (Score 0) 343
No, I actually don't. I think exposing an all-seeing police state has great implications for the rights of that state's citizens, but has very little bearing on life vs. death. Snowden's revelations haven't actually saved anyone's lives, or stopped a war, or otherwise prevented violence. I think there are better candidates.
In that case I think you're being short sighted and parochial. A great deal of Snowden's revelations concern the interception of world-wide communications data in order for the Western powers (chiefly the US and the UK) to prosecute illegal wars and carry out extra-judicial killings (murder, in every day terms) across the world. These actions will certainly provoke the next generation of terrorist outrages, and are probably intended to provoke the next generation of terrorist outrages - because unless there are enough terrorist outrages the security state will get its budget slashed.
The security state and the terrorists are symbiotic: they feed off each other. It's no accident that Osama bin Laden received his initial training and support from mujahideen who were financed by the CIA.