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DOUBLE PLUS GOOD DOUBLE THINK

"We are the freest country in the world, and the greatest freedom there is,
is the freedom from TERRORISM." Anonymous Senator, quote not exact.

At what cost?

Which of the articles of the constitution and bill of rights shall we
sacrifice in order to keep the others in place? Do we sacrifice freedom of
speech, press, congregation, and arms to the 'God given right to be safe and
pay taxes to assure it?'

The greatest freedom from terrorism is living in a protected jail cell at
the point of gun, lest you go outside and get hurt by someone who thinks
their jail cell is better than yours. Don't forget to pay your gun tax to
pay for the guns and mother's offspring that protects you and keeps you in.

So let's correct this nonsense.

"The greatest freedom there is, is the freedom from terrorism FROM OUR OWN
GOVERNMENT." - Homer Wilson Smith ("Primer for a Free Society")

That REQUIRES without limitation, freedom of speech, press, congregation,
and whistleblowing ,which are assured by strong encryption and anonymity.

There is no compromise with the above, you can't give freedoms of these
kinds only to the good guys and not also to the bad guys.

And yes the RIAA and the mp3 markets will throw a fit, but they AREN'T
IMPORTANT COMPARED TO THE POLICE STATE THAT GROWS LIKE BACTERIA IN A SOCIETY
WHERE THE ABOVE FREEDOMS AND THE TOOLS OF THOSE FREEDOMS DO NOT EXIST.

In the effort to protect markets, politics is destroyed.

Do not let the efforts to protect a copyright destroy your ability to
criticize the government freely and safely to the whole world with strong
encryption and anonymity.

Politics is the process of DESIGNING the society, its government and its
markets,
and voting that design into operation.

A police state is DEFINED when market protections are allowed to override
political protections.

We do not want people swapping mp3's freely so we ban encryption and
anonymity, but now no one can swap political ideas and criticisms either,
freely or safely. If the government were benign that would be ok, but the
government is made of people,
and people are as insane as over toasted hotcakes, especially when given the
power to act out freely without consequence. YOU become their cow on THEIR
cow farm.

The government is created to protect you against foreign or domestic
terrorism, but without absolute transparent oversight from the people who
created it, the government comes to BE the terrorist of first choice against
the people who created it.

The government was created to protect the survival of the people, but then
turns to protecting the survival of ITSELF at the expense of the people.

The government then becomes the grandest serial killer of all. The
government is supposed to be 'in loco parentis' to the people, can you
imagine having quiet, unknown, covert serial killers for parents who can see
everything you do but you can't see anything they do?

So which is is going to be, absolute freedom from foreign and domestic
terrorism, or absolute freedom from terrorism from our own government?

YOU CAN'T HAVE BOTH because encryption and anonymity, (freedom to speak and
privacy) can't be given to only the good. If no one has them, the government
takes over and becomes a monster. If everyone has them, then the people can
keep their government under control with whistle blowing, and let the bad
guys have at ,if they dare.

You are going to have to choose who your terrorist of choice is going to be,
and suck up the consequences.

If you trust your government with absolute power to protect you from
everyone else, then so be it.

But who will oversee the overseers you have elected to make you safe?

Without transparent oversight and criticism, absolute power corrupts
absolutely.

But with transparent oversight and criticism, the bad guys can see too.

Homer Wilson Smith
CEO Lightlink Internet
Cornell EE '73


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