Quote Originally Posted by keezel View Post
Our government is fond of wars that can't be "won" by a clear and distinct victory. Perpetual war is necessary to justify the freaking massive budgets demanded by our intelligence and "defense". Same with our police force, incidentally. How often do we really need soldiers with body armor and fully automatic weapons to handle civil disturbances? And yet no-knock raids are increasingly common because SWAT teams need to justify their existence, otherwise have their budget cut.

Thus we have a war on "drugs" and a war on "terror". The war on terror is the most successful yet, as a "terrorist" need only be called a terrorist, and a whole new set of rules applies.

Digital attacks are likely to be thrown under the "terror" umbrella too because it is convenient. Thus, you're not throwing a hacker in prison for live. You're imprisoning a terrorist.
That's a nice post Honestly; I think the ideal that eventually, we'll be putting smart people in jail for a simple screw up in something, is probably going to be true.

I mean look at what Nixon did when he started the DEA and war on drugs; He created a massive underground just like the original drug laws did, which is stupid of course, because our Constitution, is supposed to guarantee certain rights to us as people, and human beings, and a drug law, prevents it.

As for Terrorists, I do find it humorous that they stopped calling it "The War Against Terror" because people realized an acronym was too funny not to print lol. Nothing like seeing some red neck with a huge "****" sign lol.

I've also seen pictures of a guy who has a sign essentially saying "Get a Brain Morans!!!!" and.... That was priceless to me; A guy who's saying someone is stupid and spelling moron wrong, that's awesome lol.