Nov
20
2008
Periodical Political Post *8
Posted by Josh~ in Fight, tags: Australia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA
- Data of more than million children (!) added to DNA database in UK
- UK Government wants to collect every email in a giant database
- Australia wants to filter thousands of "harmful and inappropriate" websites
- Sweden sets date for gender neutral church weddings to May 1, 2009
- “The Yes Men” brought us a (fake) New York Times from a better future (read it here)
Gay marriage is a question of love
- SSchäuble mahnt Ende von Diffarmierungskampagnen gegen “freiheitlichen Verfassungsstaat” an – Einweisen!
- Linke distanziert sich von Wikipedia-Sperre – Sehr lesenswerter Kommentar: Wikipedia und der starke Popanz
- Nach 38 Jahren (!) stellt der Verfassungsschutz jetzt die Überwachung eines Bürgerrechtlers ein
- Beschuldigte zum Selberbasteln: Die Razzia ist nur einen klick entfernt
- Möglicherweise Schutz vor HIV gefunden – Pharamkonzerne nicht interessiert.
Olbermann’s “special comment” is over-dramatized pandering for ratings. He has become a caricature of himself in the states and is regarded as a joke among liberal intellectuals. The case is better being made by more serious people.
As for the British government’s plan to store every email message in a giant database… i THINK this is an implementation of an EU directive. So it could be with the rest of you euros very soon. They want to store details of every IM too. And they already stored details of your text (SMS) messages… and phone conversations.
But I think we should respond with Operation Spartacus… a very minimal system that acts as a mini-email server. You run it, it adds its IP address to a huge list. Then your machine sends an email to one of the other machines in the “Spartanet” chosen at random saying “I am Spartacus, I am Spartacus, I am Spartacus…” (maybe repeated a 100 times). That “email” is received by the other machine but never stored. The speed at which these emails get sent out is configurable by you so it doesn’t eat up too much of your bandwidth.
Just think of it… millions of machines sending emails to one another that THEY have to record, their databases will expand and expand and expand… and then what?
Why have marriage laws at all? Contract and ceremony freedom, there, look how easy it was.
Bashing Olbermann and MSNBC is becoming fashionable these days. I guess one way to appear intelligent and impartial is to attack liberal commentators as much as the conservatives who actually did something to deserve it.
Marriage reduced to contract law…. doesn’t that make it prostitution??? :P
@fanofgrendel: If you don’t like what he said or the manner in which he said it, that is fine. However, at least understand that even if he is being overly dramatic, there is the chance that some people will see it and be inspired by it to make a change. Keith Olbermann, like many people in the media, uses the methods that he believes will get his point across best.
I think Olbermann is fine for preaching to the choir, but for converting the heathen, I believe his brand of theatrics counterproductive. He has a fan base to satisfy so will be continuing his shtick, and thus, I hope Andlat is right and I am wrong.
I just prefer the softer touch in my evangelists, a Billy Graham instead of an Elmer Gantry, or I guess, in salesmen in general. Here is something I really liked that a kid did prior to the vote:
Well as to the UK, and Austrailia. You guys need an actual constitution as opposed to whatever the hell piece of crap you’re stuck with now. Granted our “Bill of Rights” in the States is under constant attack by the political extremes, and religious nuts. However it still stands. We still have it,…mostly.
I can still publish my materials, and do Radical Queer Boylove blogs.
Congress shall make no law….etc.
Although some views are under fire, like mine, they’re still protected. The government here can’t,..as much as they’d like to, just filter out what it doesn’t like. Bush certainly has tried, but the truth still slips through.
The good news is that OBAMA is or says he is for an uncensored internet. We’ll see.
Btw, Austrailia should be a Republic at long last with a frigg’n Bill of Rights, and it’s own national destiny for all it’s folks.
Olbermann is my Hero. There are damned few Liberal people in American media. I’m seriously glad he’s there. 90% of the other talking heads are rightwing nuts or outright bigots.
Uncle Sidney and I agree on much and disagree on much but are still friends. Ain’t life grand. I value his presence on the internet highly. Everyone should check out his blogs. It’s one of my daily rituals.
http://royalrepublic995.blogspot.com/
and
http://bleedingqueers995.blogspot.com/
@Josh, your buddy Dennis Kucinich is now my buddy as he fights to save 4000 jobs at National City Bank WHICH IS MY FRIGGIN BANK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5gVyGIxNUk
Greetings comrad, and life is indeed grand!
I still think the U.K. is a raving nut house, and Australia would be better off making it ‘own’ stupid mistakes.
Otherwise let the goodtimes roll!
Btw, Prop 8 will likely be tossed out by the Courts. It stinks, and will never pass the constitutional test in Washington.
My opinion …. Marriage is between you and your god (or not) and the state has no business in it. If you want to get married, go to your church and do it. … Then there is the matter of a legal union for combined rights of the couple. That should be available for anyone.
I am very fortunate to be gay and living in a country where same-sex marriage has been the law for years already (Canada), but I still find the words of this man to be very inspiring. I hope many people were able to truly hear what he had to say.