I would like to thank the readers of BoingBoing, Cory, Maggie, Mark, Xeni, Rob, David, Jason, Ken, Dean, Eric, et. al. for making me the official voice of the BoingBoing forum. I will certainly have big shoes to fill now that Antinous is gone, but I’ll do what I can.
(Hint: they didn’t, so I don’t know why you’re speaking as if I claim to represent anyone other than myself.)
Yes I do. I think that in the past decade we have seen:
- Rapid erosion of civil liberties
- Extrajudicial assassination by the President
- “Wars” premised on false pretenses (WMDs in Iraq)
- Wholesale destruction of the US Economy, aided and abetted by Wall Street Robber Barons
- Our government shut down and held hostage by a fringe minority that is increasingly pandering to a fundamentalist “Christian” bloc.
- A marked increase in the militarization of police
- An evidence-free drug policy used to racially profile and incarcerate countless for minor crimes
- A prison complex that is colluding with and paying off judges to help increase their revenue stream
- Mass surveillence and recording of everyone’s electronic communications
- An assault on the self-determination of women by the GOP, the entity that conrols one of our houses of government
- Political races flooded by corporate cash once allwed to do so by a complicit Supreme Court
The surveillence is where we finally caught the government in a naked, bold lie, committing grave offenses against the Constitution and demeaning each and every one of us netizens. Not Americans, not terrorists, but each and every human who uses electronic communications. This is a trans-national problem. And for me, a tipping point.
I have been very vocal, on here and Twitter (the only places I use social networking), and extremely vocal when among persons in my sphere of influence (friends, family, colleagues) about this issue. I regularly walk down to the offices of my Senators and Representative (they’re a few blocks away from my workplace). and do what I can. I donate to all of them, even the ones of the other political party, because I’d rather have them take my money and be beholden to me than to a corporate interest. I vote. I think Keith Alexander and James Clapper are traitors. I think the death penalty should be considered. This is wholesale violation of human rights as laid out in the founding of the USA (but we can only prosecute for the Amercians harmed–sorry bout that, rest of the world). This needs to be stopped NOW or it will never be stopped short of massive infrastructural havoc.
I think it’s that bad.
P.S.- Piss off.
