BiblioPolit: Freedoms

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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Airport Security: Your freedoms eroded!

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Show your support for the Right to Know Campaign today! ACTION item!

The South African government is busy looking at the ~~Secrecy~~ Protection of Information Bill. I wrote about this in my post called "South Africa soon to experience its own Body Snatchers." In this post I wrote:

"The problem with any government, is that as soon as the government starts intervening in the area of the free flow of information (FFOI), it is usually (read: almost always) because the current government (political party in charge) does not like what is being said about them. When it comes to the ANC, that is exactly the case. The ANC does not have the social make-up or maturity to handle criticism well. [...]

"A government that does not like, and cannot handle, criticism, soon turns into a totalitarianism."

South Africa is currently at a cross-roads in more ways than one, and the issue of the freedom of the press and of the Free Flow of Information (FFoI) is but one of them. However, for the South African democracy this issue rates as one of the most important, if not the most important issue.

South Africa soon to experience its own Body Snatchers

John W. Whitehead

John W. Whitehead writes:

"Yet even in our present police state, with our lives and bureaucratic structure now oriented around a fear of the next terrorist attack, the underlying principle remains the same as it was over 50 years ago--namely, can we hold onto our basic freedoms and avoid succumbing to the soul-sucking dredge of conformity that threatens our very humanity?

"This question is at the heart of director Don Siegel's 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a film that not only captured the ideology and politics of its day but remains timely and relevant as it relates to the worries that plague us today.

Millenials: The New Face of America—Will Our Freedoms Survive?

As John Whitehead says in this video, this generation is one of the most educated generations in history. However, it is an education that knows little about life and morals. It is the generation of SMS, Twitter and Facebook. It is not a generation of great understanding, because its knowledge is based on sound bytes and not on reasoning from all available information.