Is a new democracy forming on the internet? Are the hackers known as "Anonymous" and allied groups the new Sons of Liberty whose agitation helped birth a new nation 235 years ago?
Well, that remains to be seen. But to the extent that the U.S. government and prominent politicians behave like the British in 1776 and before, it is quite possible. Forces in repression of free speech and of access to information have sparked statements that many of us find outrageous.
Now we learn that the government may already have indicted Julian Assange under the Espionage Act of 1917, a piece of repressive and anti-democratic legislation as infamous as the Intolerable Acts and just as much a burr under the saddle as far as exciting revolution.
As the USA more and more resembles the totalitarian nations it professes to war against, the patriots of the internet are loading up their squirrel rifles and readying for war. "Squirrel rifles" in this day and age being computer hardware and software and communications equipment.
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