The United States is a bankrupt country living on borrowed time. The USA is an Empire of Debt. Soon a time will come when the USA's rules will no longer be the rules of Earth.
Making criminals of Open Source users ? Surely there must be an airhead involved with this.
And the debt flow is closing down. The dominoes are falling one after the other, starting with Dubai ==> Greece then it will be Portugal or Spain, the risk is that the UK will also
eventually default. Creditors will look at the USA and it's massive debts, it's massive deficit and wonder if they can ever get their money back. They will flee US Government debt, cause a run on the US Dollar, and
The end of America.
And yes, The Russians are coming. At least Russia's finances are on a sound footing. I've been to Russian 9 times over the last 7 years. Every time I get there I could see a massive improvement in people's living standards, better roads, better internet coverage (and cheap too). And Russians are not encrouching on the rest of the world. Unlike some other previously named country.
Failing empires always loads up with
more rules, more regulations and more control over it's citizens, all diguised "for the common good".