Whistleblowing

I gathered from USA TV shows like David Letterman’s that many Americans regard Edward Snowden as a traitor. I was quite surprised, therefore, to see a recent New Zealand (NZ) newspaper editorial (The Dominion Post, September 17, 2014) declare him “a hero of democracy” for revealing “a staggering worldwide bugging machine that clearly threatens our civil liberties”.

This was after his brief appearance in NZ politics during the just completed national elections cycle (https://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-sto... ) and allegations of dirty politics by the NZ National Party.

Those allegations have not been enough to stop 48% of NZ voters from re-electing the National Party for another three years.