This WikiLeaks whack-a-mole reminds of the old film about early rock and roll, "American Hot Wax." In a pivotal scene at the end, trailblazing DJ Alan Freed is arrested in a payola scandal during one of his rock shows. I can still hear him yelling, "You can stop me, but you're never gonna stop rock and roll!" (Rock and roll, in this case, being the internet.)

The grownups didn't understand the power of rock, and I can assure you that the political Beltway class does not understand the power of the internets.

In fact, the feds narrowly dodged a bullet last week when they dropped a case against a man offering X-box modification services. (They gathered evidence in violation of California's privacy laws. Hah!) As one gamer told me, "That was good, because you really don't want to get those hackers mad. They'll take down the entire government."

From a Foreign Policy blog: