Date: Thu Jan  5 14:13:45 2006
From: thegesus at gmail.com (TheGesus)
Subject: Stop aiding an industry that just hurts humanity

On 1/5/06, Andrew A <gluttony@...il.com> wrote:
> "In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a
> comfortable life, and they lost it all ? security, comfort, and freedom.
> When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to
> give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from
> responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."
> ?Edward Gibbon
>
>  We stand at the cusp of a renaissance. A freely communicating humanity is
> closer to unity and harmony than ever before. Never before have ideas and
> knowledge traveled so rapidly. If not for the Internet, little would be
> known about the atrocities our government attempts to commit in secret. All
> the American people would be able to read is the party line off of cable
> television. With a morally bankrupt media, the Internet is the key to any
> sort of democratic resistance. Thanks to the Internet, we may view photos of
> wounded Iraqis and internal government memos. The priveledge of viewing and
> knowing these things is easily lost.
>
>  We approach the final hour of the free Internet. As I write, forces within
> our society are beginning to impose control and restriction onto it. If
> these forces are not turned back, I know that within a decade that the free
> world's Internet will be a mix of cable television and the supressed Chinese
> Internet. As a beggar, I present myself with the humility that my lowly
> position deserves. My plea is simple: stop publishing your vulnerabilities.
> We will need them.
>
>  I want my children and their children to have access to truth. Not just my
> truth, or my government's truth, but all the other truths in the world as
> well.
>
>  I want us to be able to communicate easily and safely about the actions of
> our government.
>
>  I want the merits of the Internet to progress in form and finesse until we
> are ready to cast the criminals, thugs, and mammonites out power all over
> the world.
>
>  A secure Internet is an Internet without freedom, without privacy, and
> without anonymity. The nature of security is control. Were we to be governed
> by the just, I would worry little about this situation. Sadly, the political
> systems of the first world have been perverted by an evil which ensures that
> none who do not share its nature hold office.
>
>  Submitting yourself to a secure system requires that we have a reasonable
> amount of trust for the system's keepers. Does your current government have
> the ideal qualities needed to control the flow of information? We should be
> keeping everything which may allow us to circumvent the system guarded
> closely. The subversion of trusted resources will eventually be the only way
> to keep forbidden information in mass circulation and the primary means of
> resistance against tyranny.
>
>  "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
> greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We
> seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that
> feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget
> that ye were our countrymen." ?Samuel Adams
>
>  If you place any value on freedom, then stop working for the oligarchy and
> start working against it. I'll admit, subversion does not pay well. It isn't
> quite as cushy as the six figure job I passed up, but it has a great
> benefit: I can sleep at night. I'm not aiding a set of corporations and a
> government which used unethical means to corner vast amounts of wealth and
> proceeded to flagrantly abuse their power. The reward for doing what is
> right is better than any earthly reward that I could receive.
>
>  "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to
> perpetuate it." ?Martin Luther King, Jr.
>
>  To the employees of the biggest security firms of the world, all American,
> I want you to stop and look at the government of your country. You have an
> administration which has gone and invaded countries on a whim, which
> authorizes torture that is conducted in secret, which has less transparency
> than any government in recent memory, that places extreme emphasis on
> executive power... the countless historical comparisons that could apply
> here are obvious so I need not make them. This administration is a perfect
> example of the type of systemic corruption that is inevitable due to the
> very nature of power, of control, and yes, of security. People like this
> will soon be deciding the fate of the Internet.
>
>  When engaging in reasonable political discourse is not allowed you are
> going to be wanting to take your freedom back.
>
>  It is time for the last stand. Our mission is to retain the right to freely
> think, code, and communicate. Stop helping the industry, stop publishing
> your 0day, start working to make a real difference. Save your arms for the
> time very soon in which we will need them. Have faith in your self and your
> God and good works will come. We need not be slaves to a master that
> despises us!
>
>  Non-disclosure is a heroic endeavor. Be a hero.
>
>  Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth,
> intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it
> unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of
> self-help... ?Gandhi
>
>  -

And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right? ...am I wrong?
And you may tell yourself
My god!...what have I done?  ?David Byrne

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