It all depends on how you look at the overarching conflict, I suppose. To me, the privacy debate is like a cold war that's been raging for at least a decade, that began turning hot around the time of the collateral murder leaks and definitely after the Snowden leaks.

Yes, civil disobedience in this context comes with consequences. It's a fight, people get hurt in fights. Lives have already been ruined by the surveillance state. It's important to keep in mind it's a path of action people feel forced down by the actions of their government.

> you start to see that trying to ascribe some higher civic purpose to these particular leaks isn't warranted.

You sure about that?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22030#efmABAADK...

Here's a bit of one of my comments from yesterday, "For instance, the stories about Podesta's dealings in Russia [1]. This email [2] includes an attached legal bill regarding formation of Leonidio LLC. Is that not government and business corruption? 1. http://www.wnd.com/2016/10/how-hillarys-campaign-chief-hid-m... 2. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13946