I have but only 18 years experience in this world, and of that I remember about 15 years of it. I've had similar goals and desires of many of my peers, and I have seen the world for the things that I know about it. And while only a small portion of it can truly be contained in my mind it is in the next few months that I will be sharing my views. This is a contest, a scholarship, so at the core that will be what drives me to proceed with this blog. I want you to note this, because it is a hypocrisy that will most certainly exist in the things that I say.
I desire to be progressive though, so my words will do their best to reflect that idea.
I think that the only microcosm of our known world that truly matters and has any real effect on the people, is the society that governs us.
These are not all a people who truly care. These are people of careers, these are people who are determined, and these are people who seek to do things for themselves. These are a people focused on their own wealth, these are a people focused on shaping their own world. They will do things to their benefit, and if that benefit requires filling someone else's pocket at someone else's expense, so be it.
This is how they operate. This is what they know. And it has never been more apparent in our world than on my own birthday, February 12, where Congress passed a vote that would grant retroactive immunity to Telecommunication corporations.
How can anyone in good conscience, excuse a company from breaking the law? Trial by jury is written into our Constitution for a reason. It is the courts that should decide the fate of those companies, and if they broke the law, they should face the consequences. If it's a matter of them helping you by breaking the law, then why don't you just, y'know, get rid of the law? Either get rid of that law, or see to it that you and they face the consequences.
Without enforcement of the law, why do we have it? Without justice, where is the accountability? When will we as the American public take a look at what's happening and see that the top media networks control our flow of information on broadcast, and that without a fair law-base for the telecommunications we'll lose the very freedom that the internet allows us.
And without freedom, there is no America.
