People will have to get up and fight this like (what remains of) freedom depends on it. Because it does. But until public opinion wakes up, I sometimes think it would be easier to just buy a huge piece of land somewhere, build 10+ nukes and missiles and tell everybody to leave us the hell alone.
Now I know that’s not very practical. And 10 times critical mass of weapons-grade fissionable material would be hard to get. And then I bet there’d be a few nastly little engineering issues. And I’m sort of against private possession of nuclear weapons. Or against any possession of nuclear weapons really, now that I think about it. And besides that I’m kidding, and on top of that my kids are celebrating their birthdays today.
So here’s all I can do, which is to salute everyone fighting this today. F*ck ‘em!
Congrats on the kids, sorry to hear I can not sign up for your land of freedom.
It saddens me to learn (especially in The Netherlands), fighters for those fundamental freedoms are so dispersed. My generation grew up with freedoms we took for granted, I fear most lack the vision to see how valuable they are – I just hope I can teach their value.
Mr. Gonggrijp,
My name is Geoff Ziezulewicz and I’m a journalist with Stars and Stripes newspaper. We’re an American daily that covers US communities overseas. I heard you speak at the Overseas Vote Foundation in Munich, and I was wondering if you’d be available for an interview next week regarding the future of e-voting. I was particularly intrigued by the story you told about internet voting problems in I believe it was The Netherlands.
Sorry to contact you like this but I have been unable to find your email address online. I can be reached at +44-1638-54-6082.
Thanks in advance,
Geoff
If you’re willing to fund the nukes, we’ve got the land already
Diplomatic relations with repressive regimes are at an all time low already anyway.
yeah.. maybe call it “new new amsterdam”? just build a large *ss sub level 27 facility and claim you have ‘em. maybe this will be enough to keep the tied goons away from happyland.
how did the multimedia city in costa rica ever work out by the way..? wasn’t that one of your plans some years ago?
by the way, some reading i can advice:
“Software agents, surveillance, and the right to privacy: a legeslative framework for agent-enabled surveillance” by “B.W. Schermer”.
ISBN 978 90 8728 021 5, Leiden University Press, 2007
On Google books:
http://books.google.nl/books?id=q1Li7-W7S4MC&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=Software+agents,+surveillance,+and+the+right+to+privacy:+a+legeslative+framework+for+agent-enabled+surveillance&source=bl&ots=yl7e4KZba7&sig=3Hz43IIjekJCjti7sys9cGJwWKc&hl=nl&ei=D7MaSqioDsPI-AbL8JDLDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2