Provide safe, unfiltered Internet to those in Iran

It isn't paranoid that "our" government is asking citizens to inform on other citizens who express a contrary view to proposed government policies. [email]flag@whitehouse.gov[/email] (I am already on the list. I self reported) It isn't paranoid when "our" president (an overpaid government employee) basically tells citizens (his employers) who disagree with him to "sit down and shut up".

This isn't about Obama, I was just as critical of Bush the Lesser.

Unjust laws should always be broken.

I know you were. But tell me: if the feds are so good at their covert ops on us, then why can't they be that good at other things we need them to be good at. Why the distrust? Why are they only excellent when they are the bad guys?

And BTW I am not a Democrat. Just wanted to toss that out there. Haven't been in nearly 15 years.

O_o ?

What worries me is when people don't question unjust laws. This is how you get the kind of authority system that you see in Iran in the first place. Religion makes it easy for them because anyone who questions religious law is outcast anyway. That's scary shit if you ask me.

Allowing another power-tripping regime to hide the world from it's citizens is the real crime here.

They aren't even any good being the bad guys anymore...they can't keep it a secret to save ther lives.

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Our own revolutionists were law breakers in their time.

Yes, but what is that choice? "here's your free chance to try something out which, if it goes wrong at all in any way, will have you shot and your dead body dragged through the streets as a traitor. We haven't really tried it out and we don't really know if your government are on to us already, but that's just the price of freedom, dude"

I'd go so far as to say that it's criminally irresponsible to offer anything like this.

But I have the tin foil hat and *everything.*

(Two of them in fact. Thanks, FC group!)

PS what if these drives end up in 'the wrong hands' - just a thought.

'sides, soldiers ask for thumb drives all the time too.

Because this type of spying is dead easy, whereas the other stuff is a lot harder.

Why anyone would set up any kind of independent liberation charity, when Amnesty International are already on the case and are pretty damn famous for not screwing around, seems to me just incomprehensible.

And I would love to join you in happy happy land, but see, I have this checkbook here, in the name of Chief Emeka Anyaoku. Now weirdly enough, I used to know of that chap, and I worked briefly with his son: both charming fellows, I'm sure. That's why I am *quite* certain that neither the Chief, nor his son, would have applied for a bank account and checkbook using my house as their home address - and it took me an exceedingly long time to persuade the issuing bank that they better close that account, and take the checkbook back for shredding.

By which I mean: if you think the global reach of trivial basic personal data isn't already out of safe control, then you are dreaming. It's not about paranoia - it's actually about laziness. Lazy people with mischief in mind can now see your house in Google Street View. Lazy hackers can publish your usernames and passwords on freely searchable forums in China (try googling for your common passwords...): Lazy data thieves can pay your postman £10 a week to intercept mail for false names they have set up at your address. It's not a big brother problem.

I am pretty sure our own revolutionists were criminal in many of their doings too and the people that offered aid along the way might have been criminally irresponsible also.

The definition of criminal and criminal irresponsibility usually depends on which side wins in the end. Our own revolutionists are no longer criminals, but heros (well, heros to us Americans anyway - probably still criminals to the British).

Difference is it would be much harder to revolt today than back then. That said, what our forefathers carried off was nothing short of genius (no offense to Britain especially as many of my ancestors are from there.)

If Americans did that more, you'd probably still be Free country.

Meh.

I thought I'd leave the porn on it for them, isn't that the issue? Danate them coppies of your porn collection?

That's because you are Chris's alt.

Yes, the rape and torture of loyalist civilians was pretty impressive.

Too bad waterboarding hadnt been invented.

Do people invent things to be offended by sometimes? Lol.

So you're a Tory? Tell us about life over 200 years ago.

I was talking about the system of government, which is still the best out there today as much as it sticks to the original model at least. And about the fact it was a pretty scraggly but brilliant bunch who overthrew an empire.

Not shabby.