Tom:
"The mystery of some people's rightness of intuition, the rarity of not just seeing into the actuality of what's going on, but then of doing the necessary thing at astonishing personal risk."
And while we're at it, Tom makes good sense about Google's seeming rollover. The real danger may very well be in the coopting of Google's stand, which may be more wily than it seems. It's our job to make sure that coopting doesn't happen online or in our neighborhoods--at lest not without a pointed finger and something more than righteous indignation.