You can be convicted of a felony for expressing an opinion about how to improve goverment? That's absolutely not what is being said there. He was not being cha

You can be convicted of a felony for expressing an opinion about how to improve goverment? That's absolutely not what is being said there. He was not being charged because of what he wrote in 2008. He was being charged because of his observed actions. What he wrote previously was only being cited as context for why he did it and as evidence of his intentions[1]. In law, intent (if it can be proven) can make an enormous difference in what you get charged with or convicted of. [1] e.g. "We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks." http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamju...