I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
Freedom can be a state of mind. Esp. moral freedom. Legal has no relation to "good" illegal has no relation to "evil". What's legal is arbitrary. Snowden and Assange are "criminals" (but the opposite of evil).