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Biggles
<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
in Zocalo v2.0
Yes, I know it's just an opinion piece. But comments anyway?
[url]http://news.com.com/2010-1028-5150325.html?tag=nefd_acpro[/url]
[url]http://news.com.com/2010-1028-5150325.html?tag=nefd_acpro[/url]
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There's one point still missing: How US treats other countries.
This come to my mind:
[url]http://www.effi.org/yhdistys/kannatustuotteet/[/url] (bottom of that page)
EDIT: Maybe you want english page. :D
[url]http://www.effi.org/yhdistys/kannatustuotteet/index.en.html?tmplang=en[/url]
if you live in london you will be taped around 300 times daily
More freedom = less security
There has to be a balance. Given what the United States is supposed to be, we are leaning way too far away from personal freedom.
[B]Freedom + Security = K
More freedom = less security
[/B][/QUOTE]
That's only true for some values of Freedom and Security, when the equation is balanced. As freedom approaches 0, security will eventually go down as well. Take a totalitarian state -- no freedom, and no security.
And the flip side of the coin, given an ideal state of anarchy (based on the "do unto others" principle), you will have a lot of freedom and a lot of security.
But anyway, I really like that article. While reading it I kept thinking "he gets it...". What I'm not sure about is how this can be remedied. Sure, there are people grumbling about how things the government is doing are wrong... however, it's not a vocal majority, so nothing gets done. I don't like the changes but even as a citizen, see no way of stopping it.
And I totally agree that this constant fear of terrorism is ridiculous.
How much money does GE, for example, stand to make with government contracts and tax breaks? How about Sony/Viacom? Disney?
Personally, I think that media ownership should be exclusive. You own a major network, that's all you should own. Too many conflicts of interest in being a major media owner as well as a corporate monolith.
[B]in the UK theres a camera for 1 in every 17 people.
if you live in london you will be taped around 300 times daily [/B][/QUOTE]
Really? I doubt it in Devon. :)
I agree with the following...
"The litany continues. CAPPS-II, the government's vast computerized system for probing the backgrounds of all passengers boarding flights, will be fielded this year."
Crime is evidentally getting worse and in the future I don't know whether I'd rather be secure if this was possible.
Somewhere theyve made or are still making mini cameras on fly type machines that can be practicularly unspotted into ppl homes to spy. This I would definitely say major privacy invasion!!
not one bit.
[url]http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/01/22/ararsuit040122[/url]
[B]Some how this comes to mind
[url]http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/01/22/ararsuit040122[/url] [/B][/QUOTE]
One if the important points:
[i]Police say they are conducting an investigation into an alleged breach of the Security of Information Act by reporter Juliet O'Neill, who wrote a story on the Arar case in November.[/i]
[B]“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” - Benjamin Franklin (one of the major figures in early American history) [/B][/QUOTE]
Well said. I've always liked that sentence.
- PJH
[B]It's a pity the bulk of the US government seems to have forgotten it. [/B][/QUOTE]
[i]Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it![/i]
Like I've said in other threads there'n pretty much nothing left from those priciples which basing US was founded.
And those who have power use it only to get more power and money.