[maeon3]

I wasn't saying certain people should not be held accountable to certain laws I'm just pointing out the major theme of the phenomenon taking place here. As programmers we are a tremendous emerging power and it feels like programmers are being discriminated against from the U.S. much more so than say an Exec at AIG. Perhaps the programmer should be prosecuted, to uphold justice, to make an example to all programmers that you better watch-out before you go making a copy of some document you find laying on the ground while taking a walk in the park. Don't copy that floppy, you could go to jail for 10 years.

[davidw]

What the fuck is "the established ruling system" besides a representative democracy, if we're talking about the US, at least?

Sounds like one of those trite propaganda-esque phrases that don't really mean anything.

Government in the US is far from perfect, but it's not some big conspiracy theory either.

If you want to see a real rebellion, look at Syria. It's people shooting each other with guns to take and hold territory, not some dipshit who finds an inept megacorp's trowsers down and grabs the data he finds and then crows about it.