It's nearly impossible to get those things done when private companies run prisons and get paid to detain minor offenders, when private companies sell military gear to police, when private companies sell tons of anti-privacy toys to TSA and DHS, and when all those private companies that get paid with our tax dollars then turn around and give the money we gave them right back to the politicians we picked to decide on these issues. It's the only reason I drifted away from trying to influence politics: I almost lost hope that things can be improved at this point 
On the other hand, regarding the "all talk, no action," at least some of those guys have been busy on some things, mostly behind the scenes. Bitcoin and OpenBazar are poised to do to the drug war what BitTorrent did to the record label industry. Tor, bitcoin-based mesh networking, and Bitmessage are working on making government spying impossible, and some other "dark" projects are slowly dismantling the rest of the corporatist corruption.
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