Dear CSIS
Since you are monitoring my smartphone and my computer via metadata and email as part of a Canadian security act, it's your obligation to keep me safe from harm.
I know you know where I live. The purpose of Big Brother is not just to spy on me to protect national security; it's also to protect each citizen who submits to such scrutiny from harm.
This is what Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms legally obligates the Government of Canada to do: the right to life, liberty, and security of the person. As part of the Canadian government, that too is part of your mandate.
That's what we pay our taxes for.
Showing posts with label liberty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label liberty. Show all posts
20130729
20130617
Don't Be Evil When Liberty is At Stake
"Do the right thing: don't be evil. Honesty and Integrity in all we do. Our business practices are beyond reproach. We make money by doing good things." — Google Core Values
Reactionary anarchism is partially motivated by negative liberty - the freedom from coercion. By participating on their side, a person's freedom to be / freedom to exercise one's potential - the epitome of positive liberty - is severely limited to attending meetings and participating in direct action.
If anyone chooses to study society by social intercourse with it, then one is suspected of being a traitor.
However, revolutionaries who exercise negative liberty using the same means of oppression as their foes (coercion through violence) whilst calling it liberty cannot be distinguished from their foes.
In order for any revolution to be enacted with the least amount of harm and succeed, the revolutionary must be committed to non-violent confrontation and constructive dialogue with free market society.
The reason why I choose "free market" rather than "bourgeois" is because the latter term was co-opted by the socialists, whose experiment with government resulted in the failed Soviet regime due to corruption of the communist elites who replaced the aristocrats and the Czarist regime.
In this context, "free market" refers to the epitome of both positive and negative liberty, which is free market capitalism. Even though there are regulations in place to control the financial market, one is still free to exercise his or her full potential to realize financial success.
Yet there will always be professional jealousy to motivate the purveyors of negative liberty to find the weaknesses of their business rivals, and who will pervert positive liberty by exercising the deep dark recesses of their potential in unexpected ways.
Thus, I find the antidote to this to be Google's maxim: don't be evil.
Caveat: note that the maxim provided still allows one to commit a lesser evil i.e. exposing Internet users who use multiple IDs to "manufacture" composite personas as part of their trolling activity, and in essence, "killing" fake people who only exist online.
Another example is when a policeman uses his taser to stop a suicidal person with a knife.
In business, the truth is often created in a way to maximize profits, usually by omitting anything that will negate the key selling points. This is why alternative health supplements rarely reach universal acceptance because all you need is one doctor to declare that medication is more effective, and mass media may use that declaration of medical opinion as statement of fact to erase support.
Reference:
Don't be evil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil
Reactionary anarchism is partially motivated by negative liberty - the freedom from coercion. By participating on their side, a person's freedom to be / freedom to exercise one's potential - the epitome of positive liberty - is severely limited to attending meetings and participating in direct action.
If anyone chooses to study society by social intercourse with it, then one is suspected of being a traitor.
However, revolutionaries who exercise negative liberty using the same means of oppression as their foes (coercion through violence) whilst calling it liberty cannot be distinguished from their foes.
In order for any revolution to be enacted with the least amount of harm and succeed, the revolutionary must be committed to non-violent confrontation and constructive dialogue with free market society.
The reason why I choose "free market" rather than "bourgeois" is because the latter term was co-opted by the socialists, whose experiment with government resulted in the failed Soviet regime due to corruption of the communist elites who replaced the aristocrats and the Czarist regime.
In this context, "free market" refers to the epitome of both positive and negative liberty, which is free market capitalism. Even though there are regulations in place to control the financial market, one is still free to exercise his or her full potential to realize financial success.
Yet there will always be professional jealousy to motivate the purveyors of negative liberty to find the weaknesses of their business rivals, and who will pervert positive liberty by exercising the deep dark recesses of their potential in unexpected ways.
Thus, I find the antidote to this to be Google's maxim: don't be evil.
Caveat: note that the maxim provided still allows one to commit a lesser evil i.e. exposing Internet users who use multiple IDs to "manufacture" composite personas as part of their trolling activity, and in essence, "killing" fake people who only exist online.
Another example is when a policeman uses his taser to stop a suicidal person with a knife.
In business, the truth is often created in a way to maximize profits, usually by omitting anything that will negate the key selling points. This is why alternative health supplements rarely reach universal acceptance because all you need is one doctor to declare that medication is more effective, and mass media may use that declaration of medical opinion as statement of fact to erase support.
Reference:
Don't be evil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil
20130604
Fuck Liberty and Democracy!
i'm waiting for someone inspired by Curtis' The Trap" series to argue against negative liberty and its effect on iraq and Afghanistan.
How can the Alliance effect positive liberty and encourage democracy in both nations by DICTATING a government into existence which denies the right to form labor unions and allows 10% of American money ($36billion) to flow into the military industrial complex along with 100% of profits. That's not a government; that's client state capitalism.
It's also why both Taleban and Shi'a versus Sunni violence is happening in Afghanistan and Iraq respectively.
By making liberty an ideal based on being free of coercion, it becomes devoid of a freedom of human potential.
And today's international policies only worsen the problem.
How can the Alliance effect positive liberty and encourage democracy in both nations by DICTATING a government into existence which denies the right to form labor unions and allows 10% of American money ($36billion) to flow into the military industrial complex along with 100% of profits. That's not a government; that's client state capitalism.
It's also why both Taleban and Shi'a versus Sunni violence is happening in Afghanistan and Iraq respectively.
By making liberty an ideal based on being free of coercion, it becomes devoid of a freedom of human potential.
And today's international policies only worsen the problem.
20121222
My Hope for the Future
Overall, reduction of oppression of women of color.This may be done by egalitarian means.
Elimination of child neglect and child abuse.
Elimination of the glass ceiling for women, or better, women executives competing on the same level of men, due to men's enlightened attitude, throwing off patriarchy's disempowerment of both men and women.
Discovering evidence to counter the effect of religion as disempowering women by making Buddhist practice less of a religion and more of a lifestyle change. For Buddhism has shown that when practiced outside of patriarchies in an egalitarian society, demonstrates that Buddhist women benefit as much as men do.
As well, I believe that less oppression and sexism actually occurs in society than it did 100 years ago.
However, neither men nor women should be the privileged sex, as both feminism and patriarchism promise.
Rather, an egalitarian society without glass ceilings, oppression of women and of men, and safety of boys and girls from harm is the ideal.
As well, it's time to change myself for the better to ensure these hopes are put into action first through speech and followed through with action.
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Elimination of child neglect and child abuse.
Elimination of the glass ceiling for women, or better, women executives competing on the same level of men, due to men's enlightened attitude, throwing off patriarchy's disempowerment of both men and women.
Discovering evidence to counter the effect of religion as disempowering women by making Buddhist practice less of a religion and more of a lifestyle change. For Buddhism has shown that when practiced outside of patriarchies in an egalitarian society, demonstrates that Buddhist women benefit as much as men do.
As well, I believe that less oppression and sexism actually occurs in society than it did 100 years ago.
However, neither men nor women should be the privileged sex, as both feminism and patriarchism promise.
Rather, an egalitarian society without glass ceilings, oppression of women and of men, and safety of boys and girls from harm is the ideal.
As well, it's time to change myself for the better to ensure these hopes are put into action first through speech and followed through with action.
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20121203
Rise Like Lions
The Montreal student uprising is predated by the writings of Montreal university student Jamaleddine.
Everyone remembers the 2000 G-20 protests in Montreal. During that protest, evidence of police brutality came to light.
12 years later, when the student protests over student fees arose in April 2012, it was met with the same level of police violence as in 2000.
After these protests died as winter drew near, Gilles Vaillancourt,
the mayor of Laval and Gerald Tremblay, the mayor of Montreal had resigned in the wake of corruption charges against them.
Thus, Jamaleddine's words are very prophetic.
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.”
Post your Vs wherever adequate and repeat the words of ... Shelley.
Let it be your dream too, the day human kind joins in realizing we are bound by the same shackles.
Let North America be, once again, the model of freedom and bravery that it once was.
It is to every man and woman that has a yearning for liberty to rise and demand that our governing bodies remember that they are not to serve but we the people. -- Eyad Jamaleddine
Everyone remembers the 2000 G-20 protests in Montreal. During that protest, evidence of police brutality came to light.
12 years later, when the student protests over student fees arose in April 2012, it was met with the same level of police violence as in 2000.
After these protests died as winter drew near, Gilles Vaillancourt,
the mayor of Laval and Gerald Tremblay, the mayor of Montreal had resigned in the wake of corruption charges against them.
Thus, Jamaleddine's words are very prophetic.
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.”
Post your Vs wherever adequate and repeat the words of ... Shelley.
Let it be your dream too, the day human kind joins in realizing we are bound by the same shackles.
Let North America be, once again, the model of freedom and bravery that it once was.
It is to every man and woman that has a yearning for liberty to rise and demand that our governing bodies remember that they are not to serve but we the people. -- Eyad Jamaleddine
20080311
Nohchallah - Chechen Hospitality and Moral Code of Tribals
"Nohcho" means a Chechen. The term "nohchalla" encompasses all features of the Chechen character in one word. These included the entire range of moral, ethical and moral norms of Chechen life. You could also say that this is Chechen "code of honour".
Hospitality is "nohchalla." Politeness and docility is "nohchalla." Mutual reciprocity is "nohchalla." Yet the term "nohchalla" is incompatible with "rank" and "status". Thus, the Chechens have never been princes nor have they formed a kingdom.
"Nohchalla" is the ability to build lasting relationships with people, in no way demonstrating one's superiority, even being in a privileged position. Rather, in such a situation one should be especially courteous and friendly, so as not to hurt anybody's feelings.
"Nohchalla" is friendship for life: in the days of sadness and joy in the days. Friendship for life has the notion of the sacred. Inattentiveness or discourtesy towards a brother is forgiven, but never towards a friend!
"Nohchalla" has a special reverence for women. While stressing respect for the relatives of his mother or his wife, a man with a horse goes right to the entrance to the village where they live. So cherish the honour given women that only a man brought up in the spirit of "nohchalla" displays.
A personal sense of freedom and the willingness to defend it is "nohchalla." For "nohchalla" obligates the Chechen to respect anyone, but to reject coercion, force, and violence.
Indeed, "nohchalla" is not law but what a Chechen does knowingly and voluntarily. It is currently the democracy of the Nokhchiin.
Translated from http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion=musiceng&row=15
Hospitality is "nohchalla." Politeness and docility is "nohchalla." Mutual reciprocity is "nohchalla." Yet the term "nohchalla" is incompatible with "rank" and "status". Thus, the Chechens have never been princes nor have they formed a kingdom.
"Nohchalla" is the ability to build lasting relationships with people, in no way demonstrating one's superiority, even being in a privileged position. Rather, in such a situation one should be especially courteous and friendly, so as not to hurt anybody's feelings.
"Nohchalla" is friendship for life: in the days of sadness and joy in the days. Friendship for life has the notion of the sacred. Inattentiveness or discourtesy towards a brother is forgiven, but never towards a friend!
"Nohchalla" has a special reverence for women. While stressing respect for the relatives of his mother or his wife, a man with a horse goes right to the entrance to the village where they live. So cherish the honour given women that only a man brought up in the spirit of "nohchalla" displays.
A personal sense of freedom and the willingness to defend it is "nohchalla." For "nohchalla" obligates the Chechen to respect anyone, but to reject coercion, force, and violence.
Indeed, "nohchalla" is not law but what a Chechen does knowingly and voluntarily. It is currently the democracy of the Nokhchiin.
Translated from http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion=musiceng&row=15
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