Oh government, not again. (Score 1)

It's honestlly sad when "for the people, by the people", means nothing more than that our government can control our lives without our consent. They make decisions that put people away for a lifetime for doing nothing more than looking somewhere they might not normaly be allowed, not even hurting or stealing things. More and more our government feels that it has the responsibility to decide everything for us and the fact that they can bypass all sorts of civil liberties, like being able to tap phones without reason, track web activities, search employee databases, to name a few, worries me conciderably. Why doesn't anyone stand up? Do you risk looking like a terrorist for standing up for your rights? Is fighting the unlimited government/congress support of the people against anti-terrorism, that is obviously taking things too far, so wrong? The power-grabbing government/congress of anti-terroristic, super-hero lore is going too far. The "hacker" that they're putting away for life has no option. No case by case basis or verdict. In effect, no trial. According to the EFF, specifically the lawyers working on the 2600 DeCSS/DMCA case, the judges don't understand in the least bit about computers in their most basic sense, but the are putting people away for their entire lifetime. It's time that we do something, or they are going to take away free speech, the right to a fair trial, the right to vote, or conciderably worse.