Article note: A variation of this trick will be used in some show for a 2020s version of the "Fiddling the stoplights" scene from Hackers.
It is pretty clever.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.