In the Name of Security!
Once I thought that my phone call, my e-mail, my sms were something between me ant the the recipients of my messages.
Once I believed that NSA’s Echelon was only a mirror for the skylark (it is an italian motto to express a “decoy”) and that our freedom was real!
I was young and unwise
Oh, you are such a paranoid! you can easily say, but I belive that our freedom is not what we are expecting!
In Italy (but it is not the only nation that have choosed the same way) the 9/11 first and the London terrorist attacks after has marked a change of working with the privacy, with our rights.

From january 2006 all the italians will have to change their Identity Card, replacing the old one (in paper) with a new plastic multifunctional card, where your fingerprint will be stored. If someone has nothing to hide, he shouldn’t be worried having its own fingerprint saved somewhere in the police headquarters, but the changes are not so limited!
Since the bombs in London, Italy, one of the cradle of the democracy (?), has decided that for the foreigners the DNA check is not a choice anymore, even if the police should take their hair or blood through violence.
WHY?
Do you really think that this will help us to be safer? And don’t you think that the menace should come from some angelic italian?
I’m sorry, I believe that those choices are wrong, because are acts of racism against a different ethnic groups, different from us because of their cultures, because of their religions, because of their way of managing the Human Rights.
I would like to remind you that the American Government tried to change the UN law on the tortures, because they told that for some terrorists it should be the right thing to use! Torture?
And where will you put the human rights? In the bog?
And if you will arrest someone who is not a terrorist? Will you apology for having tortured him?
And didn’t the American laws tell that everyone is innocent unless a jury decides differently?
Don’t you understand that we are reducing the Human Rights limiting the privacy, the freedom of a Human being?
If we think that we are better than them (?), why do we lower our culture to meet their in a fight that will have no winner and no looser?
I think that the bombs in London and the airplanes in New York was only decoys
I do not know if anyone of you will understand my words, but please keep in mind that these are my personal opinions (please, debate with me trying to change my point of view).
I think that 9/11 wasn’t created by terrorists… too many things let me think so (take a look at this site).
I do not know about London, but the changes in the european goverment has been so fast that I should think that italian one is one of the best in the world for its fast responses… ha ha ha!!!!
The new laws contemplate a complete logging of our messages, of our phone calls, of our e-mail…

I want to be sure that my e-mail will arrive untouched to the persons I’ll decide, without anyone (men or computers) scanning its contents to decide if it can contain dangerous words or ideas!
Hey, I’m FREE to think, I’m FREE to decide, I’m FREE to speak!
And those who check my e-mail? Are they trusted? By WHO?
Not by me, I can assure you!
Our governments is trying to be like some sysadmin (System Administrators) that wants to know every single bit that flows through their servers… They are WRONG, because the privacy our freedom should grant us is the only thing that divide our form of government from a dictatorship, a tyranny!
We should tell our government that We do not belive in the data retention.
We belive in the freedom, we belive in our privacy, we belive in our Rights!
Come on! Tell me whatever you think! I promise a debate with everyone who has something intelligent or propositive to tell or to every constuctive critic you will be able to give me!
Being in the Big Brother should be a choice, not an imposition!
The only way to ensure that a democracy will remain effective is to ensure that the government cannot control its population’s ability to share information, to communicate. So long as everything we see and hear is filtered, we are not truly free.
Ian Clarke, Freenet founder
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