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An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress

Brian — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:59:37 +0000

The Internet is one of the very few places where we are free to interact and do as we please. I get real uncomfortable real quick every time I hear how government or business want to regulate and change it. (oh, it always seems to be ‘for our own good’, of course) Here is an excerpt of a response from a group of people who actually understand how the Internet works to one of the most recent attempts:
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

When we designed the Internet the first time, our priorities were reliability, robustness and minimizing central points of failure or control. We are alarmed that Congress is so close to mandating censorship-compliance as a design requirement for new Internet innovations. This can only damage the security of the network, and give authoritarian governments more power over what their citizens can read and publish.

The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open Internet, both domestically and abroad. We cannot have a free and open Internet unless its naming and routing systems sit above the political concerns and objectives of any one government or industry. To date, the leading role the US has played in this infrastructure has been fairly uncontroversial because America is seen as a trustworthy arbiter and a neutral bastion of free expression. If the US begins to use its central position in the network for censorship that advances its political and economic agenda, the consequences will be far-reaching and destructive.

Live Free of Die

Brian — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:47:08 +0000

In Bill Whittle’s Afterburner video “Live Free or Die”, he goes through the recent crash that happened at Reno Air Races, and the predictable outcry of the statist that followed. He then gets into something very interesting: “the socialism that you promote so vigorously has probably killed more people than the combat fatalities of all the wars all of humanity has ever experienced, combined”. The order of things that have killed humans are:

Disease
Socialism
War

“I think the greatest evil in the world is to be given something that entire galaxies of stars don’t have: the give of life, of being alive. Of weighing and accepting risks in order to see and do things that dead things and living dead people can not or will not do, and therefore do not want you to do either.”

American Ideals are “Unconventional”?

Brian — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:09:49 +0000

Lots of great stuff packed into a 14 minute interview:

via youtube

What If? -by Ron Paul

Brian — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:54:11 +0000

What if you open your eyes? By Ron Paul Short 3 minute video adapted from a Ron Paul speech from February 2009:

His truth is marching on

Brian — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:30:42 +0000

YouTube – ‪CC’s Battle Hymn of the Republic – video by Lubbock Independent School District‬‏.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
While God is marching on.