America's next president had better believe in restoring liberty | Dan Gillmor
Our founders had their faults, and great moral blind spots - but in freedom, they were far ahead of his time
in the presidential election of 2016 begins to focus, the desire of my heart, a leading candidate to take the next speech, or similar
Thank you for taking time from your busy schedule to listen. I want to do more than listen, but I want you to listen, because none of what I mean in this country is more important than what I am going to discuss today
The issue is freedom.
We lose our freedom. In some cases, eliminated. In others, we give them away. If we do not reverse course, and soon, we will lose altogether. And if that happens, we lose our republic.
Freedom is our civic soul. Our founders had their faults, and great moral blind spots. However, in freedom, as it came to be understood, were ahead of their time. All Americans - all - should know by heart a quote from before the American Revolution. It is generally attributed to Benjamin Franklin, and bed. "Those who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"
The limited the power of government constitution by design . His first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights, are almost entirely limit the power of government. They have to do with options.
For example, as Americans, we choose to leave even offensive speech, because we know that when we protect the speech we hate, we protect our own speech. We chose to make it more difficult to convict the guilty of their crimes, to protect the innocent from being convicted of crimes they did not commit. We chose to accept more disadvantages and risks more to have more freedom.
But too often in our past, and at an alarming rate today, we chose to limit freedoms in order - as we said - for better security and fewer problems. We tend to fix our worst impulses in time, but too late for those whose lives have been damaged or destroyed during these pulses are the law of the land. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it tends toward justice."
But the current threat to freedom is unprecedented.
It starts with the expansion and the executive often uncontrolled. Then add a total inexorable pulse monitoring. Brother expands its reach directly, spying on our digital communications in almost all its forms. The cameras are catching up in the streets of the city, and see where we are heading, and you can be sure that Big Brother wants access to it. And business has been co-opted to the sponsor, forcing them to provide the information they thought we share with them only. Everything happens in massive databases.
soon if it does not change course, everything will be captured and stored. Everything we do and say will be visible to the government, and will be available to post when someone wants to know what we were saying and doing in the past. Although the vast majority of people who enter the public service is good and honorable, history tells us that those who are not abusing their position -. And that power corrupts inevitably
monitoring of all, all the time, 05-05 - reduce the risk of a type of disaster. But is guaranteed otherwise. We all know the types of research that pervasive surveillance is bad for society. Breeds mistrust. It chills free speech, the foundation of freedom. Mass surveillance is not only anti-American as a civic issue. Turn people to be conformist shy innovative, economically damaging and
When people say. "You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide" I wonder if it is normal to install cameras in their homes, not only in the living room, but the room and bathroom. Ask them if they interfere with a microphone and a video camera every day, so that others can see how what they have said and done.
You're guilty of something. I guarantee you. Lawmakers created a number of new offenses and penalties, and allowed the application of the law to extend the old laws dangerously. Did you ever say anything less than the absolute truth when you complete an online form to use a service We're here to be charged with a crime for it. Besides, it is not necessary to convict at trial. If you are a target, which can ruin you financially if you try to defend yourself. C ' is what we expect in police states and banana republics, not here. As the surveillance state grows, it will create more goals from people like you.
Our leaders have made a calculation in recent years they think they are too afraid, too cowardly to face the truth -.. And you think that freedom is much less important than the temporal safety
We are human. Terrorism release our deepest fears and our most murderous fury, despite the risk of each of us is ridiculously low. We must question merchants fear, and ourselves.
A difficult truth
- Here's the truth. We will be attacked again, no matter what we do to prevent it. Americans will die. Boston bombers as murderers escape our efforts on prevention. Rarely, but in reality, they will find a way to commit their crimes, because in an open society, we can not seal each border area, open building, we can see the world with enough attention, and that there can not follow all the materials that anyone can be part of a pump. If we did that, and all the other things we need to do, we become a police state.
- And do not forget:. Police in the States, the greatest crimes - the worst acts of terrorism - are committed by the government
- Yes, we will be attacked again. No matter who is the president when he arrives, we will track down the killers and bring them to justice.
We will mourn our victims rebuild what has been destroyed and do not forget to take risks for our freedom. Terrorists achieve freedom and resilience of the United States, this is what really makes us strong, and they have no possible way to bring us down as a free nation.
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