It would seem that We the People may have lost our perspective in the areas of privacy and information disclosure. After all, never before in the history of mankind has the global community been so interconnected or informed of governmental and societal goings on as we are now nor have we ever have such diversity of media sources to gather information from. Not until the technological revolution of the 1990's did we even have access to the internet, e-mail or 290 channels on the television. When the internet became popular, we gained a new perspective; a new freedom of information. Before that time, our news was isolated to papers, radio and a few news channels. The information revolution via the internet and an ever expanding news media has changed that, quite significantly.
With violence raging across the globe, maybe we should be accepting and welcoming the monitoring of our sites and e-mails to assist our government and help them find those who would commit acts of hate here, in
For the sake of argument, just imagine what would happen if there was complete secrecy on the net as so many insist should exist: If a bomb went off in a downtown somewhere in America and your children were in the blast zone, would you not be among the first to shout out as so many did post-9/11, insisting that the government should have been aware it was going to happen and acted to stop it? But then again, there is the question of whether we should have some form of privacy or even, protection from unconstitutional laws like indefinite detention where words spoken in frustration could be used to wrongly accuse a person of plotting against the State and without charges, be held as the title suggests; indefinitely.
Power Corrupts
As seen of late, the
As has been said, Power corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. With the institution of the "Patriot" Act and National Security Act, SOPA, CISPA, CIA special operations and a Police State intended to dissuade any movement against the in-place oligarchy; our freedom has become a matter of perspective which is swiftly becoming myopic in the dusk of global, governmental control over our nation. In an ideal world ruled by the just, some monitoring would be acceptable to preserve our nations against those who would do us harm but anytime one gives a corrupt system power to pry into their lives, those entrenched within the bowels of it's offices will always want more and more until all freedoms of privacy become a distant memory and corruption takes the place of representation.
We the People have always had the wonderful ideal of freedom in the past. Now though, we are living in an increasingly dense collective. Given the inherent characteristic of population growth, violence and moral degradation increase in conjunction with over crowding and resource stresses, it would follow that an increased police force to control the violence in this crowded population would grow in conjunction with it. As evidenced of late, it has certainly done that.
Sadly, in order to protect against threats to our national security, we are being asked to commit something of ourselves to the cause; something dear to our very national being. Our government created the problem of the "terrorist" attacks in
Free market enterprise wanting to tax the internet overseas which inevitably cut off global connectedness, increasing paranoia by governments operating against their people and a global awakening to the realities of our planet being destroyed by greed have all combined to form a wave of desperate action by governments everywhere in order to maintain power over the people they are misrepresenting. The internet has made all of this possible. It has brought us to a sense of power; a power the global corporacrats want to take away at any cost. We the Global People have for far too long, been disparaged by the few and we are gaining strength toward a global revolution. They who stand against us know this all too well. If they didn't, there would not be such efforts being taken by them to rein us back in.
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