I generally agree with everything that you have said. But there is an exceptional circumstance that must be considered, which is when the lawmakers and the law enforcers no longer are acting in the best interest of the people that elected them but in their own best interest. That thing you call democracy was enacted pretty much throughout the world by a bunch of "criminals" and "terrorists" that organized "riots" that eventually toppled the previous form of government.

How different do you find this situation? Has Wikileaks been charged, judged and convicted? No. The people's elected governments are using non-legal tactics to defend itself from the exposure of it's own misdeeds.