Tuesday, November 5, 2013

THE WAR ON FREEDOM


We are constantly told that governments spy on each other and all of us ordinary folks in order to keep us “safe from terrorism”. Every government talking-head brings up this point and waffles on about the need to “balance” security and freedom – and the difficulty of finding the “right” balance.
Twaddle! There is no right balance. There is either freedom or totalitarianism. You can’t be half pregnant, and you can’t be half free.
What’s so disturbing is that governments spy on us – not to protect us from “terrorists”, but to protect themselves from “us”. That’s right. The whole edifice of government spying is to ensure that we don’t rise up and hang the bastards in the streets!
Just think about it. How likely is it that you will be killed by a terrorist? How likely is it that your town or city will suffer a bomb attack? How more likely is it that you will die in a traffic accident? Fact is, the whole terrorism thing is a scam of the highest order. I’ve been saying, ever since 9/11, that the bogus “war on terror” is in fact a war on freedom.
Those in power fear what their restive populations may get up to. They fear what we may be talking about, discussing or even plotting. So under the guise of “spying to keep us safe” the real reason is to keep the fascist security state safe from “us”.
Don’t buy into this terrorist nonsense. See this bogus “war on terror” for what it really is.
It was Andrew Galambos who opened my eyes as to the true nature of freedom, back in early 2000. I read his magnum opus Sic Itur Ad Astra (This is The Way to The Stars), collected transcripts from his Free Enterprise Institute, and came away with a profound insight.
Freedom can never be achieved by fighting for it, protesting for it, or voting for it. Freedom is a ‘product’, it will arrive via the marketplace in the form of freedom technologies that people will want to use – like the internet, like Bitcoin – and these technologies will enable “us” to protect ourselves more and more from the ravages of governments who claim to want to “protect” us, when in fact they want to enslave us.
The freedom revolution will arrive via the free market, science and technology, as products, tools and services that make freedom more possible.
Just as the arrival of the internet has provided ordinary folk with unprecedented access to information, and therefore increased the possibility of freedom, so future technologies hold the promise of more freedom to come.
Yes, governments can and do exploit technologies for their own nefarious ends. But always remember this: governments are never any good at anything they do. Governments attract sociopaths and sycophants, along with the usual assorted bureaucrats and thugs – none of whom are capable of producing anything of worth. Witness the latest debacle with “Obama Care” where the government can’t even get its flagship website to work properly.
And we are supposed to look up to these people?
Give me a break!


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