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For several millennia mankind has labored to design a system of governme...
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For several millennia mankind has labored to design a system of government to adequately host its masses. We have sought a means that can accurately represent the most people within reasonable standards of efficacy given the basic constraints of capital and bureaucratic resources, among other logistic challenges. We have attempted to craft a structure in which people can govern themselves, and have been just as effective in doing so as one could expect to be in a desperate effort to construct a daycare center where children watch over, educate, and discipline themselves. No system of government forged by man has yet been capable of serving the grand majority while acknowledging that minority ideals which are unpopular are often slivers of genius or even grandiose common sense fledging before their time.
Our species' failure to master such an integral piece of society despite ages of progress in other fields is not entirely to be shouldered by history's political architects. They have been asked to design a spacious room that is comfortable in temperature to both a polar bear and a lion, while simultaneously designing the room to keep those two beasts from quarreling without impeding on their freedom to quarrel by use of any physical constraints or barriers. Can we fault them for their consistent failure to produce satisfactory results?
A litany of systems have been tested, but our hyper sensitive communal tastes have spit them out through the ages like a spoiled food critic rejecting the finest endeavors that a laboring chef can desperately offer one after another. As our population grows and habitats expand, the populous which demands governing constantly becomes more diverse and complex. Asking a chef to whip up a dish that perfectly suits all the guests at a party becomes impossible as the quantity and diversity of the party's guests constantly increases. So it seems that the blame can be placed on the height of our expectations- but it doesn't seem like an unreasonable expectation to hope for a system of government that works. Perhaps it's about time to shift responsibility for this issue onto those who ultimately make the system fail- the citizens themselves.
Contrary to the typical layman's understanding of evolution's function- it isn't a force of nature that makes living things better as time goes on. Evolution has done to humanity exactly what we understand it to do, which is to produce more of the kinds of people that are able to survive and reproduce in their environment and fewer of those who cannot or do not. The results so far have yielded a species of instinctively short-term-thinking, selfish, greedy, and even lazy individuals, all of whom naturally want the best for themselves at the lowest cost of effort, energy and commitment. Evolution has fine-tuned us to be efficient-minded people. Most aren't naturally willing to invest energy into that which doesn't directly concern or interest themselves, even if they know it has long term, big picture significance. We want as much power and security as we can muster, and once we get it, we want to keep it.
This isn't to say that people of a mostly generous, charitable, and selfless nature don't exist. However, those people simply aren't the vast majority- and it's that majority which has thrust countless wrenches into the gears of a potentially fruitful, productive system of government. They have provided our planet with a population that's too greedy for communism, too paranoid for socialism, too apathetic and selfish for true democracy, and too large and diverse for any proposed system to really incorporate all opinions and priorities under a fair and balanced united platform. Any and all systems are open to corruption- but that wouldn't be a problem if these systems weren't attempting to control societies of citizens bent on corrupting them.
The catch 22 of the whole issue is that people aren't merely victims of evolutionary genetic contribution- they're also greatly influenced by the cultures, behaviors, and conditions of the environments they develop in. Currently they develop in a system of corrupted, imbalanced, and unfair government, which every generation continues to fail at solving because the generation they try to fix it for has grown up the same way. I know that pointing out the reason for a problem isn't equivalent to a functioning resolution, but it is a start, or at least in some cases a helpful tool in guiding the accusatory index finger in the right direction. Perhaps it's time that we stop blaming government for its inability to achieve perfection- to recognize that government itself is just a tool, and it's not worthy of shouldering the entire blame for our lack of political progress. Governments in and of themselves aren't the root of the problem here- we are.
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*Vic Toews - vic.toews.c1@parl.gc.ca - (613) 992-3128*
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*Vic Toews - vic.toews.c1@parl.gc.ca - (613) 992-3128*
Read the deleted Vikileaks tweets here: http://twitter.co...
Contact information for every MP who voted yes on Bill C-11, the Canadian version of SOPA, can be found at the following link: http://pastebin.c...
Though it is not widely known, you can call your federal MP at their Ottawa office, toll-free, from anywhere in Canada via the Library of Parliament at 1-866-599-4999.
Demand that Vic Toews step down, and that the intrusive, exploitative Bills C-30 & C-11 be scrapped in their entirety.
We will do our duty; it is time for Canada to do hers.
***Transcript***
Hello, Mr. Toews.
We are Anonymous.
We warned you not to force your abhorrent spying legislation onto the Canadian people.
You did not heed our warnings.
Now you will be exposed for the hypocrite that you are: A man who believes registering a lethal weapon is an unfair invasion of privacy, but demands that the public's information be logged for use by the authorities. A man who declares marriage and the family to be sacred institutions, but commits adultery and impregnates his mistress, and then abandons his own child. A man who demands his country spy on the Canadian people's private activities, but demands a parliamentary investigation when fully accessible public records about his own personal life are exposed.
Mr. Toews, you are now literally a joke in the eyes of the internet, the Canadian public, and the world.
You will cease your efforts to defy the will of your own citizens immediately. If you do not, rest assured that public outrage and protests will only grow, and you will soon find yourself not only mocked, but jobless and despised.
A man as deceitful as yourself is bound to have many skeletons in his closet. Some of these have already been brought to light, and we have no doubt that this is only the tip of the iceberg. Rest assured, Anonymous will not allow a politician who allows his citizens no secrets to have any secrets of his own.
Let this be a warning to any politician who attempts to censor, control, or hamper public use of the internet in Canada, or anywhere else on this planet.
Your actions will not stand. You cannot run. You cannot hide. For every one of us you arrest or imprison, a dozen more will emerge to take their place. You have underestimated the power of the internet in the hands of the people. Tyrants have once again created the weapons of their own destruction. You will pry the internet, our most valued and precious weapon against oppression, from our cold dead hands.
In closing, you may champion firearms and despise the freedom of information, but beneath this mask is more than flesh.
Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Toews, and ideas are bulletproof.
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.
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"Oh man, that was SO hilarious! Mark's impression of the dad was priceless!"
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"Oh man, that was SO hilarious! Mark's impression of the dad was priceless!"
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Take care for now!
Much love,
~Merenwynn
:o)
Gary
*HUGS*
~Merenwynn~
Yeh, you're right of course. But no one actually cares. Especialy here in England! Everyone.. And by that I mean EVERYONE who is below the age of 200(!) is obsessed with Cell Phones. Especialy the iPhone. They spend thousands of £s a year on Bottled Water, & although we Recycle, it's just not enough.
I know for a fact that people who live on estates, do NOT get a Recycle Bin/s. And if they do, they are barely used because they are "Non-compulsary".
We Are NOT doing enough. People don;t seem to realise that in as little as 20 years we will be fucked for Space, Fuels, Food & ecconomy. FUCKED I tell you!!!!!
But hey! The New iPhone is so cool! Don'y you think? It makes me feel So acceptable.. Flipping ZOMBIES all of em. I put them down there with the ants. Just doing & not thinking.
Now I'm gonna have to make a special video. *Big smile here* Thank you so much for your support and more importantly your friendship! Have a great week. Talk to you soon!
*HUGS*