All true. I wrote my OP under the assumption Snowden would still like to be pardonned/granted clemency and return home one day. But if he has decided that is

All true. I wrote my OP under the assumption Snowden would still like to be pardonned/granted clemency and return home one day. But if he has decided that is no longer a possibility, ever, and wants to devote the rest of his life to opposing the global surveillance state, then yes, hero indeed.