[ale] Big Brother announces all out assault on our Internet

[aaron]

This is a couple days out, but I just uncovered this disturbing little news 
item and think it is something that everyone with a stake in information 
technologies or civil liberties needs to be aware of.

It seems now that the Big Brother, Massive Government, Bomb & Bankrupt
neocons have (allegedly) been reinstalled for all of about 2 minutes...
...the time has come for them to whip up a few more phony, fear mongering 
threats, resume terrorizing the sheeple and commence destroying any remaining 
traces of free speech, free ideas and freedom of information that have found 
sanctuary on our internet:

=================
[Washington Times, 2004.12.02]

Former CIA Director George J. Tenet yesterday called for new security measures 
to guard against attacks on the United States that use the Internet, which he 
called "a potential Achilles' heel." 

  "I know that these actions will be controversial in this age when we still 
think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or 
accountability," he told an information-technology security conference in 
Washington, "but ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and 
control [of the totalitarian state]."

Full article at:
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20041201-114750-6381r.htm>
================

All very orchestrated and predictable, really.

In concert with Tenet's proclamation, the Republican congress has recently 
been aiming its budgetary blunderbus at  the funding sources of our Nation's 
colleges and universities, the invaluable and successful public institutions 
that also happen to be the repositories for much of our most essential 
internet infrastructure. To prop up the attack efforts, the neocon pundit 
media machine has been liberally vilifying those who encourage and pursue 
intellectual freedom in America's noble institutions of higher education. 
Like disposing of the free press and free speech, persecuting the society's 
most informed free thinkers is an early  cornerstone atrocity of every 
communist and fascist political coupe of the past 300 years.

With our most visible avenues for public dissent effectively buried**  and 
journalistic objectivity in the corporate conglomerate media virtually 
eliminated, a full out assault on the freedom of our public internet 
communications is just the next mile marker of repression as  we goose step 
into the "screwed world order" of the Corporate Communist Republican State.

The tragedy is that this used to be a country that respected democracy, 
freedom, civil liberty and sanity.

peace
(Because the only nations of freedom are the nations seeking peace.)
aaron



**
(with cowardly policies like "far speech" zones and requiring citizens to sign 
childish permission slips to attend public government events)