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RIM In Trouble For Not Violating Privacy
sufijazz writes "The US government is not alone in wanting to snoop on everything citizens do over email/phone. The Indian government wants that right too. RIM is stating they have no means to decrypt, no master key, and no back door to allow the government to access email." The article notes that 114,000 BlackBerries are in use on the Indian subcontinent. The government is concerned about attacks by militants and sees the BlackBerry as a security risk.
Be forewarned: In this letter, I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. It is worth noting at the outset that John McCain's shock troops get a thrill out of protesting. They have no idea what causes they're fighting for or against. For them, going down to the local protest, carrying a sign, hanging out with McCain, and meeting some other corrupt ne'er-do-wells is merely a social event. They're not even aware that in public, McCain vehemently inveighs against corruption and sin. But when nobody's looking, McCain never fails to make today's oppressiveness look like grade-school work compared to what he has planned for the future.
Unfortunately, sexist beggars who alter, amend, abridge, and censor the record to point the finger of responsibility at others make no effort to contend with the inevitable consequences of that action. It takes more than a mass of ghastly, malign caitiffs to take the initiative to look into the future and consider what will happen if we let McCain destabilize society. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to initiate meaningful change. What conclusion should we draw from his warnings? How about that I will do my best to maximize our individual potential for effectiveness and success in combatting him?
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. (The merits of McCain's homilies won't be discussed here because they lack merit.) McCain had promised us liberty, equality, and fraternity. Instead, he gave us wowserism, scapegoatism, and Lysenkoism. I suppose we should have seen that coming, especially since it's best to ignore most of the quotes that McCain so frequently cites. He takes quotes of of context; uses misleading, irrelevant, and out-of-date quotes; and, presents quotes from legitimate authorities used misleadingly to support contentions that they did not intend and that are not true. In short, McCain wants to smear people of impeccable character and reputation. It gets better: He believes that arriving at a true state of comprehension is too difficult and/or time-consuming. I guess no one's ever told him that he wants to give people a new and largely artificial basis for evaluating things and making decisions. You know what groups have historically wanted to do the same thing? Fascists and Nazis.
You might object to my claim that McCain equates non-cooperation and solitariness with individuality. But bear in mind that because of McCain's obsession with mercantalism, if we don't take advantage of a rare opportunity to replace today's chaos and lack of vision with order and a supreme sense of purpose, our children will curse us in our graves. Speaking of our children, we need to teach them diligently that I have one itsy-bitsy problem with McCain's editorials. Videlicet, they evade responsibility. And that's saying nothing about how he would like to see patriotism, honor, and personal responsibility fall into desuetude. Let me recap that for you because it really is extraordinarily important: For all of his professed concern for human rights, McCain has yet to take a firm and unambiguous stand against those exploitative bourgeoisie who make us dependent on callow flibbertigibbets for political representation, economic support, social position, and psychological approval. Whatever weight we accord to that fact, we may be confident that he has nothing but contempt for responsibility, duty, and honor. No joke.
A central fault line runs through each of McCain's squibs. Specifically, McCain's perceptions are merely a stalking horse. They mask his secret intention to pollute the great canon of English literature with references to his biggety, libidinous bons mots.
For McCain's oleaginous plans to succeed, he needs to dumb down our society. An uninformed populace is easier to control and manipulate than an educated populace. When you least expect it, schoolchildren will stop being required to learn the meanings of words like "disadvantageousness" and "hyperconscientiousness". They wil
And yet in North America (or Canada at least) they want to fight murder by banning guns.
That's because they (myself included) believe that knives, books, and privacy have inherent value that exceed the virtue of banning them for the purposes of controlling murder, hate speech, and conspiracies, and further believe that guns do not have such value for most private civilians.
You could argue this by saying, I guess, that declaring that something must have value to be permitted is meaningless, since any dictator who wanted to ban books would just declare that books lack value (and indeed they do). I suppose this notion of "value" has to be defined by popular consensus, so if you can get enough people to say guns have inherent value (e.g. to overthrow the government through a "well-regulated militia") then go ahead. Such a popular consensus in favour of guns does not exist in Canada, so they ought to be banned.