I'm hearing rain on my roof and train whistles in the deep dark, out to the north-east by the river's edge. It's early in the morning now, but I'm not sleepy yet... so I'll write a little. The weather/climate related disasters, along with the man made ones of the last few months are matching my dark mood, in sympathy with soaking rain and distant train whistles this night.
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| From Google Images -- Justice... NOT! |
The news lately isn't encouraging either, with the criminals who are robbing the poor and middle classes blind given even more incentives to continue their criminal behavior, even though that behavior caused the economic collapse from which we are all (except for those very criminals) still suffering. They produce nothing, only schemes to steal the money and property of unsuspecting dupes, who invest in their scams (and those dupes include pension funds, unions, cities, states, and individuals), or just use that money and property to make even more ill gotten gains, plus destroy our planet's echo system. It's all a big rigged lottery game, where the crooks (house) always win. Not only have those criminals NOT been prosecuted or punished in any way, they've been handed unprecedented salaries and bonuses, while producing NOTHING! All the while their cronies and stooges in congress and state governments cut salaries and benefits for the working class, along with the jobs and services needed to address the natural and man-made disasters this country currently faces. And what of "justice?" Why it serves the ones that have most everything already, bought and payed for!... And worst of all, there's no real outcry, no outrage from the victims, the dupes. They just shut their mouths, hope it won't get any worse for them, not wanting to rock the boat... well me thinks it's time to rock that boat, and any time I see a clear way to do that, consider it done... I'm tired of life being easy for the richest, most conniving among us...;-)~
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty. --Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.--Benjamin Franklin
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.--Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, preface, 1758
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Perhaps you have heard of the organization known as Anonymous? The are a group of hackers and supporters who have taken some initiative recently. The attack websites and computer systems of companies and countries at times, in the name of social justice. You don't have to have hacking expertise to participate either. There are freeware programs such as "Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC)," that anyone can use to attempt to overload a website with traffic. Though, it tends to take many people running such programs at once to take down the sites of really big organizations.
And why do this? It it a form of civil disobedience. Like sitting at a counter in a dinner was mere decades ago, you deny these companies and organizations business. Often attacks on particular sites have been organized through 4chan, a website where anyone can post anything anonymously, and the record of the post will be deleted and not archived.
There is a book coming out about Anonymous and the author recently was interviewed. Here is a link to that article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/one-on-one-cole-stryker-author-of-epic-win-for-anonymous/
If you chose to use a program such as LOIC, you would definitely want to set up multiple proxy servers, so that it is harder for other to trace the attacks back to you. It might me better to co somewhere that offers free internet access. I do not have any experience using it myself, but I have been very seriously considering it. It may be a way to more aggressively fight for social equity without having to sacrifice one's life to making that cause... In any case, it is something that I am thinking about.
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
- Nicholas Chamfort
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
- Frank Tibolt
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