Jacob Appelbaum in Germany

[James A. Donald]

> At 04:38 PM 12/31/2013, James A. Donald wrote:
>> 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.

On 2014-01-03 11:53, Ulex Europae wrote:
> You seem to be laboring under a pernicious misapprehension: that there
> is a legitimate mandate to obey laws that are unconstitutional and/or
> unjust. There is a mandate, but it is just as illegitimate as the
> unconstitutional or the unjust law.

If someone was to hide a laptop in one of my cupboards, to steal such 
large amounts of information from my home network as to disrupt its 
functioning, I would take a sledgehammer to his laptop, and when he 
showed up to collect his laptop, a sledgehammer to him.

Swartz committed a crime against people more powerful than he was, 
incorrectly thinking he was more powerful than they.