Hell, do it for your own self interest. If a country with indefinite detentions, broad spying on the public and government strongarming of businesses for "national security" reasons is a place you don't want to live in, help fight against it.
The group dynamic of "yeah, someone will stand up for us" is what creates situations like this in the first place.
Some chick says,
'Thank you for saying
all the things I never do.'
I say, you know, the thanks I get
is to take all the shit for you.
-Ani DiFranco, "Face Up and Sing"
Given the treatment of
Snowden: will never set foot in the US again as a free man
Manning: given solitary just to fuck with him with no punishment dished out for doing so (a room full of military assholes all saying "I didn't give the order" and no responsibility nor punishment; he just magically ended up in solitary. somehow. it's a mystery.); he shared a video of US soldiers joking about killing children
Gary Webb [1]: told us that Reagan (another piece of shit) was financing weapons with drug sales in inner cities, with profits sent to the Contras
John Kiriakou [2]: told us that George Bush and the cia now torture detainees
Who exactly is going to step forward no matter what the wrongdoing is? We ruin the lives of whisteblowers. If you want people to come forward, you simply have to not ruin their lives for doing so. Because right now it's clear what the price is for telling us what our government is truthfully doing. Hell, you could make the argument that what the NSA does is okay (I totally disagree), but CIA/president approved crack sales in inner LA. Amazing.
People who feel strongly about what is right, versus what the law says, do.