The Well of Freedom is Running Dry 'Nobody bothers about civil liberties until they've gone. As the old country song warns: "You don't miss your water till your well runs dry." We are letting the well run dry, allowing little bits of our civil freedoms to be chipped away by paranoiac governments who assure us we can trust them - and consistently betray that trust. We are gradually sacrificing what has taken hundreds of years of civilisation to achieve, which is a condition of some kind of liberty. It may not be evident to everyone yet, but we have lost so much freedom in the past 10 years. When the Government passed its "anti-terror" laws, it reassured those who campaigned against them that they would only ever be used in the most extreme circumstances. But these are completely vague laws which enable a government to arrest almost anybody for almost everything.' Eurojust Supports Wire-tapping of Skype Conversations 'EU's judicial cooperation agency Eurojust will take the lead in finding ways to help police and prosecutors across Europe to wiretap computer-to-computer phone conversations enabled by programs such as Skype. "We will sit together with all member states to see how this can be done technically and legally," Joannes Thuy, Eurojust spokesman told this website.' Bill Proposes ISPs, Wi-Fi Keep Logs For Police 'Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations.' The Great Depression Has Arrived - Collapsing American Dreams 'It almost seems amusing that we are still discussing the "coming" depression because of the fact that it has already arrived and is settling in. Really, what this entire new "era" is all about is watching our dreams deteriorate right before our eyes.' Democracy = Socialism, i.e. Communism (The Perestroika Deception) 'Without going into background on Trotsky in this article and the overthrow of the Tzar of Russia by the International Bankers - just know this: The Soviet Union was established by the same people who own the Federal Reserve and virtually every other central bank in the World. The Soviet Union was created to be an antithesis to capitalism (thesis). Besides making tons of money over the eventual conflict these two opposing dialectics would have on each other, they are the pro-genitive elements that would eventually lead to the preconceived "New Order" for the world. A synthesis of Capitalism and Communism, the China model if you will.' 'Right to Die' Can Become a 'Duty to Die' 'Imagine that you have lung cancer. It has been in remission, but tests show the cancer has returned and is likely to be terminal. Still, there is some hope. Chemotherapy could extend your life, if not save it. You ask to begin treatment. But you soon receive more devastating news. A letter from the government informs you that the cost of chemotherapy is deemed an unjustified expense for the limited extra time it would provide. However, the government is not without compassion. You are informed that whenever you are ready, it will gladly pay for your assisted suicide. Think that's an alarmist scenario to scare you away from supporting "death with dignity"? Wrong. That is exactly what happened last year to two cancer patients in Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal.'
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Saturday, 21 February 2009
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