Did we truly expect different?
Solution: install code on a Windows machine which detects it and bans it from being installed. All that is needed is for just one to fall into the hands of the opposition, the electronic specifics of it identified, and that preliminary fingerprint to be spread in an otherwise harmless virus which when it gets installed on a machine causes that machine to look for it and refuse to allow it to be used.
On Linux, all future Linux distros could have code to refuse to work with this by default or made open source to be easily compiled and installed on most versions.
Why do I suggest this? Because a government which presently shows contempt for its own laws, and its own court orders, and holds itself immune to lawsuit or criminal prosecution for those contempts, and allows corporations like WalMart to flaunt the laws and court orders at will, and has historically shown a pattern of contempt for its own founders' will in their construction of the government's founding blueprint, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, should be opposed this way by the people at large.
Not to help criminals, but because the government has shown absolute and total contempt for its people, thus in a very real way putting the safety, stability, and peace of its people into jeopardy in direct contravention of the will of those people and the entire reason for founding that government.
Granted this is largely the fault of a gullible, greedy, self-deceiving and morally deficient populace that constantly allows itself to be used against itself until brother fights brother, but until we get a grip on ourselves, start getting sane, and start doing better with that government of we the people, the people need to re-balance the imbalance of power they themselves have created. Sure, it's a little like self-flagellation for inability to stop eating sweets after every cupcake, but the alternative is to ignore the waistline altogether.
Maybe we'll someday call a truce between our desire for security and our desire for freedom and re-establish ourselves as reasonably stable and not seeming like we're going steadily schizo, but I give you these wise words:
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom."
Dwight Eisenhower
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
They are on the front page of www.somethingawful.com from which I source many of these stories. Strange how supposedly upright people on both sides of the political spectrum will try to teach you otherwise than Eisenhower and Franklin had it and a fringe kooky site will tell the truth you know in your heart.
My grandfather didn't fight in Europe for this country to slowly slide into the cold cynical grip of fascism. I don't mean Bush or Clinton. I mean the fascism of us ALL. I mean the fascism of not even trusting ourselves. Any of ourselves. When we stop believing in better, well, that's how we got headed down this road.
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