Hacker Jeremy Hammond Gets 10 Years

[teh_chem]

He didn't steal from specific people, for a specific reason. When you go to war, you don't pick who you kill to make your point, you kill who you must. He believes in a cause, and targeted random people to make his point. Yes it sucks that random people had their lives totally screwed over, but do you think he honestly didn't care? I'm sure he did, but he more so believed in the greater good of his goals, and what it would mean for both the people he effected, and those he didn't, in the long run.

I'd gladly hurt not only strangers, but loved ones, if I knew it was going to prevent a horrible situation, and build a brighter future. Not everything is black and white, but this country, and much of the world, is definitely in rough shape, and it takes drastic ideas / actions to come back from that.

That's terrorism, not warfare, though people can probably debate the difference between war and terrorism ad nauseum. The generally-accepted rules of war usually preclude harming innocent people (or rather, minimized), much less INTENTIONALLY harming innocent people.

If you'd harm innocent people and your own loved ones for the things you believe in, you don't deserve those things in the first place.

 

[cemerian]

there are only two case in which killing huge amounts of civilians was accepted and even celebrated by the western wolrd, you know fatman and litle boy.

 

[childofthekorn]

there are only two case in which killing huge amounts of civilians was accepted and even celebrated by the western wolrd, you know fatman and litle boy.

Don't forget the UAV bombings being run in several different countries.

 

[cemerian]

there are only two case in which killing huge amounts of civilians was accepted and even celebrated by the western wolrd, you know fatman and litle boy.

Don't forget the UAV bombings being run in several different countries.

i stand corrected

 

[zephon13]

Rapists and murderers get lesser sentences, but you idiots are worried about hacking organizations bent on violating every last privacy we have left. Even worse bankers are free to steal from all 300,000,000+ Americans here, and you don't say a word about them. Keep spouting the regurgitated garbage the media tells you, it's really helping us become a better society. Or you can grow some balls and demand some respect from those few taking a giant dump on your rights. There's way more of us than there are of them.

 

[maouris1985]

You thick Americans cant even understand what is going on in your own country,i was not expecting to understand a Peter Pan when you see one.You should build a monument for the guy,not punish him.

 

[ceh4702]

Charging someone 40% interest on a credit card. That is what should be illegal.

Although it may seem unfair, you aren't FORCED to agree to 40% interest. You signed up based on the terms of a contract, if you failed to realize the stipulations of that contract, then that is your failure.

I paid off my credit cards.

 

[coldmast]

Wow, 10 years for inconveniencing people; murderers, rapists, and childmolesters get less; obviously something wrong with a system that regards money above morality. The banks are well aware of what it takes to make transactions more secure, but that would get in the way of all profits.

 

[pocketdrummer]

Charging someone 40% interest on a credit card. That is what should be illegal.

Although it may seem unfair, you aren't FORCED to agree to 40% interest. You signed up based on the terms of a contract, if you failed to realize the stipulations of that contract, then that is your failure.

Everything that matters runs on Credit Score. If you have no credit, you have bad credit. Essentially, you need credit to build credit in order to get the things that matter (house, car, etc).

 

[pocketdrummer]

You thick Americans cant even understand what is going on in your own country,i was not expecting to understand a Peter Pan when you see one.You should build a monument for the guy,not punish him.

Oh look, he thinks it's cool to bash Americans. How fashionable...