Snowden is, for all intents and purposes, protesting against the government and its laws. Why would he willfully return and subject himself to a system he consi

Snowden is, for all intents and purposes, protesting against the government and its laws. Why would he willfully return and subject himself to a system he considers unjust? I know the scale is different, but logically, what you're saying would be the equivalent of the founding fathers turning themselves in to England instead of starting a revolution.