In a previous post I've expressed my opinion regarding Wikileaks as being a hoax -- it is my opinion and even if I'm right or wrong I stand by it until someone can prove me wrong -- a reader commented "You're incoherent. Stick to writing about Delphi.", I agree to the second part however, the first part it might also be true.
The reason I'm against Wikileaks is very obvious... or at least I hope it is...
We all(or at least a pretty big number of us) know that the mainstream media is corrupted and it's anything but "for the people", they make money out of advertising(it's not a secret) however sometimes it comes down to one or more of the following situations:
- someone(or the government) does not want something to be published -- this leads into one or all of the following situations:
a) "someone" has power over the owner of the newspaper, news channel, etc.;
b) "someone" has enough money to make the newspaper, news channel, etc. turn the head in another direction;
- the media is paid(or forced by "someone") to spread disinformation;
- the media spreads disinformation in order to gain more audience -- this results in higher rate for advertising which leads to more cash;
- the journalist has a pretty good salary however if "someone" threatens his/her family the "subject" vanishes into thin air or if "someone" pays him/her a year(or more) worth of salary to shut up he/she will most likely do it, of course both situations can come as one(pay $ X and threaten family to shut up), most common is the pay;
The Internet is part of our lives these days and it helps us share information with outstanding speed -- this means that any information(especially if it's important) can reach millions of people in very short period of time -- he who controls the Internet has power over people's information(personal as well!!).
Take the social networks for instance, they hold so much personal information(which we give for free) that one can know almost anything about Mr./Mrs. X, WHAT IF "someone" would control the Internet or these companies?! yes... he/they would know where you are, where you live, what you've done the past X time, who you know, with who are you in a relationship, what you've talked to, who did you talked to, where ware you when you've wrote something, etc. -- can you see how much information we reveal about our selfs on the Internet?!
Deleting posts or images or changing information on the social networks won't do you any good, why?! because the data doesn't get deleted, there's a field that says "deleted" or "isdeleted" in tables so that information is not shown, however... it's there and can be accessed from server side or with some API's to which only few people have access.
OK, OK, enough BS, where do I want to get with all this?! well... the equation is simple, what if Wikileaks is just disinformation(from what I know until now, there's no real sensitive information released...) which will raise(I'm pretty sure already did) the question in a lot of governments around the world: "What if our sensitive information gets leaked?!" -- now we all know that a lot of dirty things happen(and happened and will still happen in the future) in politics since the beginning of it, do they want you(the guy who is working like a slave everyday in order to have a roof above your head and have something to eat, YOU pay his salary) to know what exactly is the government doing with the money it gets from you?! of course NOT...
Take China(and not only) as example, the government monitors the data that the people are accessing and spreading, WHY?! it's simple, they don't want anything to be leaked, riots or revolutions.
NOW, what IF the governments around the world starts controlling the data that floats on the Internet?! we get to the above situation in which we won't have privacy at all.
How can this happen?! simple, take Wikileaks as a "threat"(which until now isn't a threat at all...) and tell the people that we need to take actions so that we protect sensitive information from the hands of the "terrorists" -- it's a threat to national security, we must act immediately!! -- do you see a pattern?!
Let's take the word "terrorist", what does it mean?! according to Wikipedia:
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.[1] No universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition of terrorism currently exists. Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for a religious, political or ideological goal, deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (civilians), and are committed by non-government agencies.OK, OK... now do me a favor, think of yourself as a terrorist(it's hard, but please try), can you throw yourself sky high with a bomb because you don't agree with a government or something?!! I would not think so... I mean some of you have kids, family, friends, etc. can you leave them just to make a point?!
"But terrorists don't have friends, family, etc." -- possibly true, BUT still... just thinking that you will give your life should give you chills...
"You're paranoid, a total fu** up", "not another conspiracy crap", etc. -- I agree, it's possible that I'm wrong as hell, but still... what if I'm not?!
Take the time before 9/11 for example, would you allow the police to come into your house without a warrent?! NO!! could they vote this law?! NO!! why?! because it's illegal and immoral by all means!! still they wanted this, what happened?! well... the 9/11 incident in which a lot of people died and got injured -- now that's not right!!
How many towers got hit by a plane?! 1?! yea... sooo... why ware there 3(three) towers that collapsed?!! there are few people that know how many towers did actually collapsed on that day -- check that again, don't leave this "unfortunate incident" pass by because it was anything but an "incident".
Ohhh... yea... after that police got more aggressive, people can't really speak their mind if there's any injustice done to them, why?! because police can arrest you using BS's as excuses, can keep you locked up for as long as they please, etc.
By the way, I've saw a documentary on Discovery channel about "America's doomsday", it's a program started way back in the '50's by the president of USA, the program involved keeping the president and as many people from the government alive in case of a soviet nuclear attack. That's sweet and cool, EXCEPT that they've built a lot of bunkers which where absolute before it was finished because the soviets ware always improving their weapons, they knew that... YET they continued constructing bunkers using the people's money!!
Where do I want to get with this?! well.. what's the scope of a government?! in my opinion it is a group of people who leads the people and takes necessary actions to protect them against outside threats or against their own people, also the government must improve the life of each and every citizen as much as possible, YET the people are doing very bad, the people have NO defence against a war attack, YET the people is paying a lot of money for weapons, bunkers and all kind of BS's that "we need" in order to insure our safety, YET the people are struggling everyday to have a job or to have something to eat, while to governments around the world starts austerity programs because they "needed" to bailout banks(with the people's money of course) that got us in this situation(the economic crisis that is...) in the first place -- YET few people are revolting on this, WHY?! I'm not saying that we need to start revolutions around the world, NO!! that's not the solution, we need to change governments more often(1, 2 years max.!! if you can't keep our life style in that period, you can't improve it, so why do we need you?!), we need to put government people that took stupid actions with people's money in jail for a few years so that others will be more careful of how they spend money and what actions they take.
I want you to send this message to all your friends that work in the army, police or any type of armed force:
Don't forget that we're all people and you should protect the people NOT THE GOVERNMENT, any action taken against the people who try to express their problems or needs to the government(which has the job to improve the life of citizens) should be considered a THREAT TO THE PEOPLE, ANY THREAT TO THE PEOPLE SHOULD BE REMOVED IMMEDIATELY BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY!!
In the end I would like you to express your opinions about what I've wrote above(note that I might also be wrong) and also I would like you to verify everything that I wrote above, DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED, QUESTION MORE!!
> I want you to send this message to all your friends that work in the army, police or any type of armed force
ReplyDeleteI'll preface this by mentioning that I have 2 brothers on active duty in the US Marine Corps. Our military is filled entirely with volunteers. They *are* the government. In fact, when sworn in, all military personnel declare an oath:
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
Their duty is ultimately to defend the US Constitution, but they take their orders directly from their military officers, who take theirs from the President of the US. My point is that anyone that enlists in the military has even less of a right to betray the policy of the President....because they swore an oath to uphold it, unless they believe it is unconstitutional; in which case they have the right to sue the government and go to military court.
On a side note, I am an American and I still don't understand how Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize (apparently it's the "not George Bush" prize).
> we need to put government people that took stupid actions with people's money in jail for a few years so that others will be more careful of how they spend money and what actions they take.
I disagree. They simply need to be voted out of office. In the US, we recently had "mid-term" congressional elections. Meaning that every 2 years, every person in the House of Representatives is up for re-election (435 seats). A portion of the Senate was up for re-election (they serve 6 year terms).
The result of this recent election is that many of those people that voted for government bailouts of private corporations lost their jobs. Voting is our recourse against politicians we don't agree with.
Regarding the oath: I haven't served in the army, however I believe you did, my point is that in the army(and not only) they are kinda' brain washed "an order can not be questioned -- or something like that" -- I ask you now: how will an officer question if the order is constitutional or not?! the first thing one should do is to ask IF his actions can(or will) lead in hurting civilians, if so, then he should arrest the leader and get him in army court. Let's "not" mention how many innocent people died in Afganistan because soldiers did NOT think about the consequences they just followed the order.
ReplyDelete"I disagree. They simply need to be voted out of office..." -- if you steal a sandwich from the supermarket you can do time because you stole something worth $ 10, however a politician that steals or wastes people's money will be treated as a kid with Down syndrome and say: "he's an idiot... politicians...", I say NO!! enough with the BS, serve hundreds of hours in jail for that so that other will learn not to mess around with the money that ware made by hardworking citizens.
Regarding the Nobel Prize, it's a total f*** up, it's simply unreal... how can one that is almost starting war in North Korea win the Nobel PEACE Prize?!
50% Old news (government don't give a damn about their population, OMG!1!1!!!1one)
ReplyDelete40% conspiracy crap (9/11, wikileaks)
10% incoherent babbling
0% coding
Is this some kind of elaborate troll ? The previous articles were also in the same category, like you've discovered this week that the world isn't as nice and beautiful as you thought it was. Welcome to adulthood.
Too bad, it was hard to find relatively good delphi related blogs. Oh well, one less, ten to go.
@Serial Kicked thank you for your "welcome", by the way because of people who don't give a damn we're in this type of situations.
ReplyDeleteNo, I haven't discovered this this week or even this year, expressing opinions is a good thing, because of people like you, others stop talking about things that really matter, which is "the people".
And another thing... I really have big hopes in France as the nation which is giving the "start" for a revolutionized thinking, am I wrong with that?!
Let's recap, i was a bit disappointed by the article and i have been too harsh. I'm fed up with conspiracy theories. Seeing those in a website i like was somewhat upsetting, and well, i was tired. My apologies.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, i won't have a discussion with you on why those conspiracy theories don't stand. It's pointless so I will stick with Noam Chomsky on this one: This is a lot of energy lost that could be put to use on real issues. When people fight over the fact that the planes crashed on the WTC or not, they're too busy arguing to deal with the consequences of the event itself. From this, you can even deduce that the people in power (who are not limited to the government) encourage such theories to divert the attention.
"Don't believe anything" is no better than "accepting everything".
France is a shadow of what it was before. The right wing is sold to the financial interests and the left wing is, well, in a mess. As for the population, i don't know, fed up with everything and everyone is the only description that come to mind.
@Serial Kicked "France is a shadow of what it was before." -- I don NOT AGREE, french people are still revolting when they don't agree with something, unlike other countries like U.S. or mine for instance...
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I've wrote the last 3 posts "off topic" is because I really hate where we're heading -- insecurity that is... and not only... so I was expressing my concerns the best way I can, even tho' it has a "conspiracy" aroma that doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't true but also that doesn't mean that they are true.
Anyhu' I'll get back to programming subjects ;-)