Other tidbits for thought: . Optimism It is easier to be optimistic about impending events & the gathering dark clouds on the horizon, when one is mentally prepared & is accoutered for dealing with a threatening circumstance. Things don't look nearly so overwhelming the greater your confidence that you know how to respond; when you are prepared to meet the challenge because you have the means to do so (or can get them) and the knowledge of how to apply these to advantage. . Violation It is so telling, that legal documents on crime will always state that violations are of "section 351, 844 (f) or (i), 1114, 1116, 1203, 1361, 1363, 1751, 2280, 2281, 2331, or 2339", or a violation of "this or any other Federal criminal law". They don't say that an act is an attempted violation of "reality" or "of the sanctity of the individual" or of "the principles of privacy" or "the values for which this Nation stands". The words and meanings are arranged to place the sanctity and inviolability of the State as beyond the right of the individual to contemplate. It places the prerogative for State functions as existing outside an individual's category of the thought: there is no way that one could imagine the requirements of independent existence as sovereign to the functions of the State, as there is no allowance for, there are no "provisions"made for, any power to act beyond what is outlined by "the Law". That wouldn't be so bad, if The Law was a reflection of the real world and True Intelligence. (Barring that, it's back to the trenches. Now the trenches of cyberspace.) Blanc