I apologize if you see this more then once. With the advancement of technology we went from biological and chemical warfare to a insane nuclear arms race. With enough weapons to blow up the world many times over perhaps someone realized that this is something which needs only to occur once for the world to become no more. We are still caught in the middle of an arms race however the battle wears a disguise, appearing to be less lethal to the public’s eyes compared to the idea of being caught in the middle of a nuclear holocaust. Welcome to the age of information. Wouldn’t people in positions of unchecked power find ways to profit from abusing their power? Since it is certain that some people will abuse their power if they think they can get away with it, somewhere along the line information and people are going to get exploited. When politics are involved corruption surely will follow. You cannot stop the occurrence of something if you don’t know about it. How easy it is to manipulate people into handing over their civil liberties. Remember, you are not giving up liberties because anything that is being done against you is all being done in the name of national security. “Move along people, move along, there is nothing to see here.” The foundation upon which the current political and economical system is built upon is beginning to wobble. Sooner or later it’s bound to collapse because a weak foundation can only stand for so long. History repeats itself because people don’t learn the first time around. If we repeat the mistakes of previous eras we are bound to end up following their footprints. If things were bad before, they are probably worse now because over the years the technology has advanced and mistakes made in today’s world may carry greater long terms consequences then they once have. Knowledge is power. If you are a thinking person you are a threat to the corrupted who want you to accept everything presented word for word without questioning the validity of the content. If you don’t think for yourself someone else is going to think for you. Does this idea make any sense? Discuss.
you (the 'o.p.') are precisely correct. what is difficult to gauge is the degree to which current corruption is erriversably destabilizing. precisely of courese, do to the selective withoulding of ongoing events by a corporate so called media, that feeds us instead, 'infotainment'. russia, immediately before the colapse of the soviet union, and germany, immediately prior to the rise of hitler, both come to mind. as do the likelyhood of other examples both recent and past, that for vested reasons as well, we seldom hear about. the most creditable threat, at this present time, to the peace, freedom and well being of the people of america and to its constitution, IS the current executive branch, of its own government. and it IS being a clear and present danger, to everyone who even considers attempting to be honest with themselves. as much now, or if not now, soon, in the direction it has been heading, as it has demonstrated in the rest of the world, to the rest of the world, by violently demonstrating its intolerance toward any government, reguardless of the idiology or system of that government, that puts the peace, well being and security of its own people, ahead of short term corporate economic gains. =^^= .../\...
