It's idiotic to call hacking "cyber terrorism". There is not terror involved in operation payback.

[howard112211]

Tearing up websites does not inflict terror on anyone. Call it "vandalism" or maybe "sabotage" if you have to. It is an attack on property, designed to cause monetary damage. If you want to cry "terrorism", please show me where someones life was threatened.

The lives of the Wikileaks activists, on the other hand, were actually threatened...

[Catherina]

1. By the Patriot Act definition, anything that interferes with profit is economic terrorism

It has specific provisions for financial terrorism and economic espionage. As far as the US is concerned, Wikileaks is worse than Bin Laden or any other boogieman they can point to.

You're right of course but our government isn't interested in justice, just profit and clamping down on free speech that exposes it. Rec'd

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. "What's in a word", eh?

I agree with what you said.
I might suggest that "anything that even OBJECTS TO profit" seem more apt.

You may remember the dire warnings so very many of us made when the Patriot Act and all its successive spawn were created, that the laws were aimed at us.

"They" are now calling anyone who objects to TSA assault, "domestic extremists".

[Catherina]

9. You're right, "anything that even OBJECTS"

We're all Spartacus over and over again now.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. The PATRIOT Act needs to be appealed. But only Feingold opposed it...

Everyone else in DC, at that time, sold our fourth Amendment down the road.

[Catherina]

10. Feingold was a lone hero. I hope we see much of him politically one day.

The betrayals go way back. Why are the people who sold us down the river still in office?

[Lint Head]

2. I imagine the corporate fascists that rape us on a daily basis are terrified

[DirkGently]

3. "Terrorism" now means "offensive to U.S. policy." (nt)

[qb]

5. Operation Payback et al are practicing civil disobedience in support of 1st amendment rights

and government transparency.

[stray cat]

6. True - so I can post the SS number of everyone in the US online?

[frylock]

12. you don't have the means..

but knock yourself out anyway.

[PVnRT]

13. Taking down PayPal = identity theft?

Amazing the lengths some people will go to when they don't have a good argument.

[Toucano]

8. Kick/Rec n/t

[flvegan]

11. I fear the SHAC 7 was the beginning of this slippery slope.