This incident in germany just highlights something which I think that I would like to raise to the forefront of the tor community's mind, and in fact perhaps this would be well advanced in the entire open source community as a whole.
This is a war. We are fighting at the highest level, and this project itself represents the ultimate counterattack to surveillance, and surveillance being the highest level of military strategic processes. All i want to say, after that sort of heavy statement is: tor server operators should not expect to be free of injury from this battle we all are engaged in. Having said that, it is a war worth fighting. We are fighting on the side of peace. Our cause is in the name of the defeat of all methods of fighting war at the top level. If they cannot surveil the enemy, they cannot establish adequate strategy. This means any potential warmonger. It does not matter what you think your ideology is, tor is at the top of the heap of defensive weapons. The more citizens chose to adopt this defense the less capability any military organisation has of determining a strategy. Without an effective stategy they will not chose the right course of action and the wrong course of action in military strategy leads to political disgrace. Yes, it makes tor a political target. But we all knew that it would be, and here is proof. Don't take it lightly. Tor is not just idealism, it is offensive to the most central power of oppression. It is ironic that this all emerged from the most submerged of military cultures, ultimately, but they put it out there, the people who started this obviously realised what they were doing. There is nothing more powerful in war than evasion. Surrender is weak compared to running away. If you can remain out of the crosshairs, you live to fight another day. Fostering this technology is helping people escape. I salute you! :)