Today We Fight Back

Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 3 months ago to Government
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I wanted to remind folks that today is the day that the internet is launching an anti-NSA surveillance campaign. We are hosting the link on our work website, as are many other companies.

Please do as your beliefs indicate.

Jan

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  • Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree completely. I have read estimates as high as 30,000 as 'the number of laws (local, State, Fed) that apply to a single individual'. The concept of 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' falls flat on its butt when faced with an outrageous number of laws (some of which are outright ridiculous).

    Jan
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As I said, it is an admirable undertaking. I just chafe at the call for "more laws." We have all the laws we need. We don't apply them or don't apply them correctly.
    All these laws on hate crimes, Jessica's law, minimum sentencing laws, etc. do nothing to improve our safety. In fact, they often provide technicalities that weasily lawyers can use to the benefit of their client to subvert the very law that the do-gooders tried to enact to prevent the "harms."
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  • Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Robbie - I would like to have the ability to leap tall buildings, but since I do not, I will hop over molehills. I would like to diminish the number of laws under which we live, whilst simultaneously strengthening personal freedoms, but I do not have the ability to do that.

    What I can do is publicize acts of egregious expansion of government power (such as the FDA putting the lid on 23andMe) and - happily - some actions that I feel to be in the right direction of restoring personal freedoms. The Today We Fight Back initiative is in the latter category. It may not have the MO you would prefer, but (from your email) its purpose does not disagree with your own perspective.

    Jan
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