Where did the meme come from that civil disobedience requires you to sit in jail afterwards?

[KharmaTrain]

94. Plenty...

...he's got a sharp beltway lawyer...Bruce Fein...who was part of the Clinton inquisition. He knows how to use the power of subpoena and discovery to put the NSA and the government on trial. He can compel testimony from people like Clapper and others as to the extent of the invasion of personal privacy. Also this would given Snowden a great forum for him to show all the material he's accumulated...put to rest once and for all if he had any real evidence of the NSA watching people's words as they were being sent or stockpiling everyone's phone calls. Let's get it ALL out in the open...and this can't happen hiding in a Moscow dacha but it sure can in an American courtroom and in the halls of Congress.

With his high profile status Snowden can't be "silenced" and any such attempts to "torture" him will quickly be exposed and spread far and wide. Since this is a civilian court he is innocent until proven guilty, thus the burden to prove he's broken the law falls on the government. Let's put all out there...if his allegations of government spying is true, he'll be acclaimed the real whistle blower and hero that many here wish him to be...