Jacob Appelbaum in Germany

[James A. Donald]

In practice, it is pretty obvious that most practitioners of civil 
disobedience believe they are above the law, that they usually *are* 
above the law, and that in particular Swartz believed he was above the 
law, and was shocked to find that he was not.

There might be some sincere practitioners of civil disobedience, but 
Swartz was not, and the big heroes of the civil disobedience brigade, 
Ghandi and Thoreau, were not.