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Underground eXperts United
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[ The Unpaid Workers of Politics ] [ By Hedge ]
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/* "I was watching the TV screen
Can't believe what I've seen" */
/* Public Enemy */
THE UNPAID WORKERS OF POLITICS
We are Robots part II
Ever had the feeling that your rights concerning freedom to read what you
want, to have what ever opinions you want etc. are safe in the hands of
the government? Think again my friend. It has never been more obvious
than now, that these rights can, and will, be compromised as soon as the
ruling superiors can get the opinion on their side to do so.
Take for example Sweden, which is, I think, one of the more liberal
countries when it comes to issues like this. Recently though, I have come
to revise that opinion. During these last months, there have been a major
racket concerning child pornography, and all the bigger newspapers here
have raised their voices against these perverts. The reason for this is
that the police made an enormous bust against a suspected distributor of
child porn, and found films where the contents were even more disgusting
than they had expected. (the number of films and names of buyers were
also a lot bigger ).
You see here in Sweden it is against the law to distribute child porn,
but its not illegal to possess it, so when the police found addresses at
the bust, it was apparent that he intended to share his little films with
others of the same mind, and had therefore committed a crime when having
these films and articles. If he hadn't had these addresses the police
hadn't been able to touch him, because possession of child porn goes under
the freedom of press article. The papers and media in general, as I said
earlier, made a lot of noise about this, claiming that in circumstances
like these, an exception should be made in the freedom to possess what ever
pervert magazines you'd like. They also invited several members of the
government to see what child porn REALLY was. (Since governments in most
countries seem to think they know about everything, but really haven't got
any idea about anything, this was really a smart move as we soon shall
see.) The members was disgusted and some even cried live on TV and
everything. The comments made sounded something like this: "I couldn't
imagine it was that horrible...", "We must immediately create a law that
forbids even possession of material of this sort..."
And so the wheels turned....
At this very minute the law proposal has gone out to several committees
for examination, and it appears to me that it will not take very long time
for them to clear this one through, even though it means violating Sweden's
constitution upon which all our laws and everything rests. Normally,
changes in the constitution should demand (I think), that two parliaments
vote for the proposal, with an government election in between. (something
like that anyway, but it is always a hard thing to pull off). Not in this
case however, and a spokesman for the government said "in cases like this,
the contents of the constitution has to come as a second priority". Well,
well, not bad for being a politician elected by the people, whose job is to
prevent these sort of things to happen, don't you think?
What the government will do, if they pull this one off, is to make a
moral statement, not to prevent children from being molested. The law that
they happily will make changes in our constitution for, wont make any
changes, because the people involved in child porn, or gets off on it wont
care about the law. It is also very difficult for the police to be granted
a search warrant in such cases where they suspect a person to be in
possession of child porn. IF anyone gets caught it will merely be because
they fucked up in some way, sheer bad luck or that someone drops the dime
on them. (and that may be exactly what the police are counting
with...snitches are nothing new to them, and the opinion tide made by media
is paving the way...)
The conclusion to be drawn is this: The mechanisms that were made to
prevent changes to the constitution, can easily be overruled just as long
as the public opinion is strong enough. It doesn't matter what the issue
is, convince the crowd and they will do the job for you.
(I hope that you don't get me wrong, I hate child porn, and things
associated with it probably as much as anyone else, but the people who gets
off on it are in my mind sick and should be encouraged to seek help, a
hasty made law that overrules the constitution against their sexual
preferences wont do any good.)
Now, before you go to bed tonight, think of this: The government in
your country decides that no one under the age of 30 should be allowed to
possess a computer, since younger people isn't mature enough to have one.
(or worse, possession of a computer is banned for everyone except for the
police, government and those who need it in their business. NO
home-computers would be allowed.) They set up a massive media attention on
computer crimes, and in that way they will get the stupid mass on their
side. Suddenly your government has created and approved a law forbidding
the use of home-computers in homes, and in this case they didn't even had
to compromise the constitution...
Sweet Dreams!
/*Hedge -94*/
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