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Meanwhile, a whole pack of miscreants run amok with other peoples' money. It's just not right.

What it sounds like is political correctness run amok, and punishment for thought crime.

To me this paints a striking, and damning, picture of these prosecutors as egos run amok. These are not the kind of people I want to see paid with my tax dollars.

Regulations may run amok, but they very often still sit on top of a legitimate need.

This is going to hit the media as political correctness run amok. I can just hear "Is Apple going to ban history books, too?"

This is US-style single-purpose urban zoning run amok. Vast portions of the urban core is entirely idle after work hours.

San Francisco is a city devoid of pragmatism - it is a fairy tale theme park run amok. Instead of getting more people to and from work faster, it is hostile to most forms of mass transit.

In theory, the government could try fooling the system and run the printing press amok. In practice, such a government would be very short-lived, as it would piss off just about every person with money.

What makes you think agents of the American state have any more shame than various other examples of thugs run amok throughout history?

Manning isn't the only example of vindictive prosecutors run amok. Aaron Swartz was facing a deck stacked so heavily that he was risking 35 years in prison for excercising his basic right to a trial by jury.

> I guess my question is: is it justified or is this just my lack of experience of living in the states running amok ? The most dangerous places are places where there's access to firearms for criminals, but they're illegal or prohibited for citizens.

Communist personality cults are about the best example of religious thinking run amok that we can point to, in recent history. Same mental bug, different exploit.

I think the problem is that corporate personhood has run completely amok. It is far too easy to invent a new corporate person with little or no visible or even provable connection to any natural person.

Even if this really is the fault of engineering amok, blaming "arrogant corporate culture" might communicate the situation more clearly than blaming "engineers."

Seems to be a class example of the "think of the children" argument run amok in that it's impossible to enforce and vague enough to mean that every convicted sex offender is breaking it every day.

Of course, it is trivially obvious to any informed person that while we have major undeniable problems with surveillance running amok and other serious problems in the US, situation with personal rights and liberties in the US is way better than in Russia. In US there are no things like Khodorkovsky's or Magnitsky's affairs, there are no laws introducing internet censorship, there is Bill of Rights, there are independent courts, there is a free press, there is the police that mostly is doing its job and not racketeering businesses, and I could continue all day long.