Its like the freedom to own guns, which Australia severely restricts (thank god). Or the freedom to have the highest prison population ratio in the first world.
Or the freedom to offer “freedom” to the rest of the world by invading them, exploiting them and then abandoning them.
Or the freedom to have the most expensive and least efficient health care system in the first world.
In Australia we trust one another and our government to generally do the right thing. This mostly goes wrong when they suck up to the US by doing things like participating in the invasion of other countries.
Freedom in the US is a smokescreen to make the population think they have self determination, yet a huge proportion of the population do not even vote.
Lets call this "good people vs bad people" trope what it is. The good people are us & people who agree with us, while the bad people are anyone who disagrees with us strongly enough to take some sort of retaliatory action. In war, they are called the enemy because we know specifically who they are. When the enemy cannot be identified as the leadership of a nation state, we have to call them bad people & their troops are known as terrorists. When Government starts viewing anyone who does not share their views as a bad person, regardless of their actual actions, we see protesters labelled as terrorists & people standing up for civil rights as sympathisers.
All those citizens are probably on line reading about the latest bombing of other countries or about how their own Government is spying on them. The rest are trying to work out their VPN.
Governments world wide now seem paranoid that their citizens believe they can communicate without being monitored. Its not so much that they want to know, but rather that they want YOU to know they are watching & thereby control what you say & think so citizens will be reluctant to rise up. We are as much a victim of the false War on Terror, as those being bombed & killed by drones around the world to extend the empire.
The bigger picture is Governments off all persuasions seeking to reign in the internet as a means for organising dissent. This is not necessarily a co ordinated undertaking, but more a natural systemic reaction to dissent using the most effective means of communication the world has ever known. The causes of dissent are now manyfold, as the world approaches massive levels of instability, primamily as a result of resource competition & the comming effects of climate change.
How do you tell what the people in charge actually want? Simply by looking at what both "parties" agree on. This simply highlights that there is nobreal choice, with the only differences being things that don't matter to those actually running things, but we all seem convinced are the real issues.
The objective js to shut down the means of dissent, prior to the shitstorm that is about to hit.
While its natural to blame something else for ones stuffups, the fact that Government supports increased sonnping powers is indicative of a fear of the general population.
Just as the invasion of Iraq was about oil & cybersecurity is about information control, airport security is another component of social control that is being slowly ramped up. Governments (if you can still call them that) know these will be necessary to control the coming revolt arising from climate change, peak oil & the ability of citizens to organise using the internet.
So what is the difference between this score & Facebook Likes? The only difference in the west is that it takes a little longer & you need a few PR firms or the odd 911 to get the Government where they want to be.
If one accepts the premise that the purpose of the Program is not public education, but rather being seen to be reasonable & righteous (as a precurser to unreasonable & litigious), then it all makes sense. It's like a violent husband saying "you made me do this".
From Aus
So these must be some of those wonderfull “Freedoms” Americans eulogise about. Really missing the Fredom to be shot here in Aus.
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Its like the freedom to own guns, which Australia severely restricts (thank god). Or the freedom to have the highest prison population ratio in the first world.
Or the freedom to offer “freedom” to the rest of the world by invading them, exploiting them and then abandoning them.
Or the freedom to have the most expensive and least efficient health care system in the first world.
In Australia we trust one another and our government to generally do the right thing. This mostly goes wrong when they suck up to the US by doing things like participating in the invasion of other countries.
Freedom in the US is a smokescreen to make the population think they have self determination, yet a huge proportion of the population do not even vote.
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In war, they are called the enemy because we know specifically who they are. When the enemy cannot be identified as the leadership of a nation state, we have to call them bad people & their troops are known as terrorists.
When Government starts viewing anyone who does not share their views as a bad person, regardless of their actual actions, we see protesters labelled as terrorists & people standing up for civil rights as sympathisers.
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We are as much a victim of the false War on Terror, as those being bombed & killed by drones around the world to extend the empire.
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The causes of dissent are now manyfold, as the world approaches massive levels of instability, primamily as a result of resource competition & the comming effects of climate change.
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The objective js to shut down the means of dissent, prior to the shitstorm that is about to hit.
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know these will be necessary to control the coming revolt arising from climate change, peak oil & the ability of citizens to organise using the internet.
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It's like a violent husband saying "you made me do this".
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