Is Edward Snowden a traitor? Not in my view. This spying on the citizenry has absolutely got to stop. With this technology theoretically the American Revolution that gained our independence would never have happened.

Why can't my country just come out and tell me, “We record everything you do. If you don't like that, change it with your vote.” Why do they think they can make those decisions about out safety better than we can? Why do they shroud it in a veil of secrecy?

This whole terrorist facade is an overinflated, mostly contrived information that allows our government to take away our freedoms and rights one by one and parse them back to us in the form of privileges. Well I'm sorry, its not OK to do that. There's a price to pay for freedom and that includes dying for it.

I don't want you to have a camera on my life. I want my privacy to conspire against you if you threaten my freedom as an American.

Snowden is a hero who is sacrificing his life to inform us of what really is happening in our country. Bring him back and place him on a pedestal.

Greg Cornish lives in Nice, Calif.