Well I voted for Obama not McCain in 2008 as did millions of other Americans. He played it cool and McCain freaked out. So score one against heads cut off. And arguably his victory in the primary was another vote against a hysteric.

Actually our government isn't panicking on this one. The media, the theater chains and Sony are the ones panicking.

I agree. This suit is bizarre. Feel free to educate me if I'm underestimating how bizarre. But my understanding of the claim was that Apple used monopoly DRM to raise the price of iPods and that was the restraint of trade act.

Sony Pictures for whatever reason is being considered American and not Japanese. The place this attack took place is the USA. Protecting the territory of the USA from attack from foreign powers is the number 1 job of the USA government. Since the USA is a democracy that means it is my government's job.

I think Fred Phelps is a jerk (worse than Sony). But if he were still alive he's an American. One a foreign power attacks an American it really doesn't matter too much whether he is a jerk or not.

We don't fine mugging victims for not knowing karate. Sony had bad security, Sony is learning that. The issue is North Korea not Sony.

If North Korea is ready to start conducting physical bombings on USA soil then the proper response is a declaration of war. At the very least counter attacks well beyond what they did. We cannot cave into these sorts of threats. We haven't in the past and North Korea threatens us pretty much daily.

And they would lose badly, being found liable. Once a foreign power is involved normal liability doesn't apply. The law isn't crazy. People die in wars. It is not in the interests of our government to encourage people to cooperate with foreign attackers. That's why you didn't see all sorts of lawsuits regarding minor stuff that happened during 9/11.

There were probably meetings. What Sony can do is publicly tell the theater groups to go even a hint of spine, hold a press conference announcing a huge Christmas release and tell the fearless leader to bring it. That's what they can do.

Heck, when one someone starts advocating fundamentally subversive to the Bill of Rights legal changes, charge their ass with sedition and lock them up.

Absolutely! Nothing could be more in keeping with the Bill of Rights than having widespread systematic imprisonment for expressing views you disagree with.

I agree. Our government's response in letting the theaters do this bad. We just made a problem much worse.

This is an attack by a foreign power. Laws regarding war apply.

Agree with what you wrote in spirit. Just a minor correction. While they have long range missiles (terrible quality BTW) they don't actually have an ICBM.

The bottom line is that families were split apart and have remained apart for 60 years directly because of squabbling between the US and the former Soviet Union.

Directly because? Certainly the USA and the Soviet Union encouraged the hostility but the Korean people aren't robots. The reason North and South Korea are apart and have such lousy relations is because of Koreans. Non Europeans are also responsible for their actions.

Sony are sometimes jerks regarding stuff like DRM. They don't starve millions of their own people to death. I'm not unclear about which side I'm on in this one.

We've lost it. It is pathetic. Agree completely. Even if this was a credible threat we shouldn't cave.

Sony is a big corporation. They do about $200m in revenue per day. The idea that some tin pot dictator can import his censorship into the United States is unthinkable.

The head of the Port Authority was not fired for 9/11, no one is going to want to fire the head of Sony pictures for this.