Government will be hacked.
It will only be a matter of time before some anonymous cabal of hackers with the sort of philosophical bearing that lends itself to Rebublican morality will hack various parts of the American government. There will be a reckoning. It will work to our advantage on one condition. That its perpetrators stand up after the deed is done and submit themselves to the inevitable trial.
Like most sensible people, I believe that Julian Assange is a cad and that Bradley Manning is a dupe, and that both of them are, for different reasons, criminals. Similarly, I believed that the Unabomber was a crackpot terrorist. But there are uses, in the hands of the capable good, for the excesses of those capable of obscene acts. And of course, man's passions will not be restrained. In other words, it's still possible to win a war.
I find it difficult to believe that our government, run as it is by some of the most conniving snakes ever, could be unassailable by those capable of stealing millions of credit cards. The vulnerabilities are surely well known. But I would offer that few of these hackers have ever considered the political applications of their skills at length, or those that have to date have been hopelessly naive.
So I speculate that there must be some clever schemes incubating yet unhatched which would expose the duplicity of those public servants we despise and that in time one of these schemes will spark a political uprising. We can only hope that what they expose will be significantly damning and of serious import, moreso than the emails of Sarah Palin or the the little black book of John Edwards.
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