Speak Out!

So the police state begins.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,24089084-5014090,00.html

We’ve given up nearly all of our other freedoms in the pursuit of homeland security, now the government want to invade our personal items to search us some more.  Why?  Because a few musicans, actors, record & movie labels, and the taxation department, don’t want us carrying around shared songs on our mobile devices.

It was OK to take tapes of recorded music off the radio around in a car & tape players previously.  It was even OK to record a movie or TV show on TV that we missed & save it.  However, it is wrong to share songs & movies in a digital format.

We’re not talking about “pirates” or “pirated” copies where someone has made a profit by selling pirated copies.  This is music, movies & TV series being shared around the same as it’s always been… except now I can share with someone in the UK, and I can fit more on my devices.

If I was stopped by customs …. I’d request a search warrant on all artists, music label & govt departments houses to be searched for pirated goods. Not just music, or the odd Bali DVD, but every single thing they have taped off TV & radio over the years.

After that, I’m going to sue JVC, Sony, etc in one of the bigggest class action suits in history. They invented & provided me with the recording devices that could record off TV. (if ex smoker can do it, so can we!) They instigated my habit of recording movies & music, the iPod was just the next progression. (if cigarette companies advertising cigarettes can make me want to smoke, any crappy reason is feasible)

Then with all the money I win, I’ll pay for my lawyer, buy the record label, and sack the musicians for being such hypocrites!

I’d even throw in a side dish of invasion of privacy that isn’t for the welfare of homeland defence!

Let’s see them try I search my laptop, ipod, phone or whatever!

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If you haven’t yet done it, then now is the time to try out Firefox 3! We don’t have sing it’s praises anymore. Firefox has continued to gain momentum as one of the more popular browsers on the market, and now they are going to see exactly how popular, by setting a World Record for Downloads!

Don’t be content with prepackaged browsers, step outside the box and try out what most of the professionals in the IT industry use. You’ll be surprised how you can customize Firefox to what you need it for, not for what some software giant has decided you need.

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June 17, 2008

You would have to have been hiding under a rock for the past few decades to not notice the World’s growing problems with refugees. Everyone is pointing the finger at each other thinking that it is someone else’s problem. Since the ‘war on terror’ the USA & UK have become prime targets in the blame game. But has it only been since the strike back at Afghanistan & Iraq that we have had these problems? No. So appointing blame is a fruitless exercise. It may make you feel better to vindicate the situations as they occur (ie. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7419667.stm) , but in reality you’re pissing in the wind. The refugee problem has been a growing issue for many years before that.

But rather than lay blame & expect others to pick up the costs, isn’t it better to start dealing with ‘how to deal’ with it, rather than mopping up the mess & trying to create order out of chaos?

The immigration exodus is not going to decrease, it’s going to continue to increase. Those wishing to flee will keep on paying increasing high amounts of money to people traders (way in excess of $10,000US a person) to escape the country, and usually in transport that is life threatening anyway. Those fleeing are still arriving illegally in a country that is bursting at the seams with previous refugees. We still have to vigilant about those that arrive in our respective countries, so queues are long while the research & paper processing is conducted. Internment camps may start off well equipped and of good standard, but house hundreds of people for months/years on end, and the standards start to slip. Morality plummets, despair sets in, hope fade, resentment sets in, until finally refugees start to get more vocal. It’s an endless cycle that is occurs in all countries taking refugees in.

So what do we do? We’ve tried saying no at our shores, and while that worked in a short term, the repercussions are high & the consequences often fatal.

We need a summit. Get world leaders, humanitarians, lobbyist groups, the community, cultural leaders, and anyone else who wants to address this issue. Let’s keep that nigh light burning until we come up with something better than what we have now. New systems. New legislation. NEW IDEAS!

It’s not too late now. But it could be too late in the future.

Send off letters to your world leaders, humanitarians, lobbyist groups, the community, cultural leaders,etc. Tell them we need to address this issue. There has to be a solution to easing this global problem!!

All of our freedoms & dignity is at stake.