I believe that it is time for what were formerly law-abiding American citizens to quit obeying the some of the Federal government's illegal laws. I know that I must "give unto Caesar what is Caesar's", but I don't think that Caesar owns my identity. When a law violates one of my natural rights such as my right to privacy, it becomes a threat to my liberty.
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Wow, the _complete_ Win32 API!? Seriously, if you can master C++ and the Win32 API, Perl is a piece of cake. Go out and buy O'Reilly's "Programming Perl" 2nd Edition and you'll have it down in a week. Perl is "hellacool" like that.
Not to sound alarmist, but if one thinks about it, the NSA has almost absolute power if they have even half of their conjectured capabilities. The ability to decipher and snoop communications at will might allow it to:
1) blackmail politicians 2) extort money from illegal organizations 3) rig the political system (even more than it is now)
Any dirty laundry (i.e. evidence) could be encypted so strongly that it would stay locked away forever. These reasons alone make a case for the pairing down, opening up, or the abolition of the NSA.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely." -- A greater man than I
Trust a Canadian to see the word "gun" either in plural or singular form and go off on a tirade on how much better off Canada is with it's disarmed society. Well, at least the law-abiding citizens of Canada are disarmed. Don't the Canadians have any other issues to talk about up there OTHER than disarming their neighbors to the south? Anyway, one of the reasons that we have the right to keep and bear arms is to facilitate a revolution, if need be. I'm not advocating an uprising right now (that's what the polls are for), but with stories such as this, one can only wonder if a Orwellian future looms upon the horizon. I personally would rather die than live in a setting such as London in Orwell's 1984. So, enjoy your gilded cage up north. We'll see who's free in a century or so.
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I believe that it is time for what were formerly law-abiding American citizens to quit obeying the some of the Federal government's illegal laws. I know that I must "give unto Caesar what is Caesar's", but I don't think that Caesar owns my identity. When a law violates one of my natural rights such as my right to privacy, it becomes a threat to my liberty.
Wow, the _complete_ Win32 API!? Seriously, if you can master C++ and the Win32 API, Perl is a piece of cake. Go out and buy O'Reilly's "Programming Perl" 2nd Edition and you'll have it down in a week. Perl is "hellacool" like that.
Not to sound alarmist, but if one thinks about it, the NSA has almost absolute power if they have even half of their conjectured capabilities. The ability to decipher and snoop communications at will might allow it to:
1) blackmail politicians
2) extort money from illegal organizations
3) rig the political system (even more than it is now)
Any dirty laundry (i.e. evidence) could be encypted so strongly that it would stay locked away forever.
These reasons alone make a case for the pairing down, opening up, or the abolition of the NSA.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely." -- A greater man than I
Excellent statement of my beliefs on the subject. It's time for people to pull their heads out of the sand.
Trust a Canadian to see the word "gun" either in plural or singular form and go off on a tirade on how much better off Canada is with it's disarmed society. Well, at least the law-abiding citizens of Canada are disarmed. Don't the Canadians have any other issues to talk about up there OTHER than disarming their neighbors to the south?
Anyway, one of the reasons that we have the right to keep and bear arms is to facilitate a revolution, if need be. I'm not advocating an uprising right now (that's what the polls are for), but with stories such as this, one can only wonder if a Orwellian future looms upon the horizon. I personally would rather die than live in a setting such as London in Orwell's 1984. So, enjoy your gilded cage up north. We'll see who's free in a century or so.