This is one of the oldest characteristics in who I am, and it’s been a part of me virtually as long as I’ve been aware of the concept of politics.

Sometimes I wish that I could be ignorant and naive and believe the hogwash that politicians tell us. Sometimes I wish that I could stop thinking, and stop seeing how hollow their promises are. Sometimes I wish for the ignorance and bliss that might come with it.

But I can’t. I lost faith in politics and the people involved with it long time ago, and for each year that passes this lack of faith gets stronger.

When I went to school we were taught about democracy and parlamentarism. That the power wielded by politicians were given to them by us, the people. That this power was wielded to promote the happiness and security of the common man. That politicians worked for us, and to further to goals of peace, prosperity and safety.

Sadly this turned out to be a lie. Today the common people exist simply to promote politicians. Politicians who have long since become corrupt and lost touch with why the got into this system in the first place. Politicians who’ve become almost autocratic, and who feel that they’re above the rules. Politics have become draconian systems to keep the common man in place, and our elected politicians are ignoring our opinions in order to further their own hidden agendas. The saddest thing is that we’ve become to complacent that we stop caring, and every time there’s an election we listen to the lies and we vote in another bunch of crooks.

My own lack of faith in politics and the lack of goodness in people involved with it saddens me. But it’s nothing compared to the sadness I feel when I see how badly they country is managed, and how unabashedly the lies are thrown in our faces these last few weeks before election.

Problemet är bara att det här är helt och hållet fabricerat, och man behöver inte vara speciellt insatt i det hela för att förstå att det är fullständigt fabricerat och att “nyheten” är skapad av utländska intressen som manipulerar lilla Sverige till att göra som de vill.

Intressen i USA har ju de senaste månaderna varit enormt kritiska till Wikileaks. Ända sen den där filmen om helikopterpiloterna som glatt sköt ihjäl civilister läckte ut har Wikileaks varit en nagel i ögat på ganska många departement i bland annat USA. Nu försöker man på alla sätt att släcka ner det här, för att förhindra att transparensen i samhället får fortsätta.

För det är vad Wikileaks representerar: en möjlighet för oss vanliga dödliga att inse att majoriteten av de människor som sitter vid makten runt om i världen gör saker som är etiskt oförsvarbara och dessutom ljuger om det. Dessa människor vill se till att vi vanliga medborgare fortsätter vara en korkad fårskock medan de fortsätter att manipulera oss och göra saker som de själva sagt är olagliga och aldrig händer.

Utan Wikileaks kommer korruptionen i maktens korridorer att fortsätta och bli om möjligt ännu värre. Wikileaks behövs.

Men det är en obekväm organisation för just dessa människor och därför skyr de inga medel alls att försöka sätta käppar i hjulet. Där ingår att fabricera såna här smutskastningskampanjer.

Uppdatering: Fick precis reda på att anklagelserna hävts. Skönt! Det gör mig glad att det åtminstone finns lite vett kvar i det svenska rättssamhället.

(Via: Stefan Flod)

Politicians deciding things about the Internet are very high up on that list of annoyances, since they all decide things about the Internet without having even the slightest clue as to what it is, how it works, or why they should keep their corrupt hands off of it.

Until the end and back again
Defiant to the last man
‘Til there’s nothing left
To fight against
No surrender

I wish I could’ve been there too and show my support for protesting against this heinous law that promises to corrupt much of our personal integrity online.

However, this last week two members of the board felt that they had the right to dictate how people decorated their patios and exteriors. The area I live in consists not only of apartment-housings, but also of duplexed houses in rows. These have exterior patios, and as with any place where people live they tend to become rather personalized and individual. People park their bikes there, decorate them individually with lights, furniture and flowers. Nothing special.

Well, apparently two of the board-members felt that the area needed a more uniform look and took it upon themselves to remove flowers, bicycles and whatever other ornamentations they felt violated the “proper” look and feel of the area. Flowers were thrown away without informing the owner of the unit it belonged to, bikes were moved away to other areas and furniture was removed without warning.

Essentially people woke up one morning to find that someone had removed their stuff. When it was found out that two members of the board had done this –with the arrogant attitude that they somehow had the right to do it– well, to call it a “shitstorm” would be quite an understatement.

I attended a meeting the other day where outraged apartment and duplex-owners asked why the board felt it stood above not just common ethics but also the law itself. The two board-members who had performed this heinous act refused to justify their actions with any response other than maintaining the attitude that the area needed a uniform look and feel to keep property values at the current (somewhat high) levels. They did not feel that they had broken any rules or laws, and maintained the opinion that people had themselves to blame for not presenting a uniform appearance outside of their homes.

When I asked if the two persons felt that they (as representatives of the board) were entitled to additionally step into our homes and start dictating how we arranged our furniture, what clothing we wore, or how we cooked our meals in order to maintain a certain “look and feel” of the community, I was met with very avoiding answers and a general stonewalling from not only the two members of the board – but from the entire board itself. Most other members of the community who attended the meeting agreed with me – where did the right to individuality and privacy end simply because the board-members felt they were entitled to arbitrarily throw peoples stuff away?

I left the meeting feeling that it was probably just a matter of time before board-members would use a master-key to enter our homes making sure we didn’t break away from the uniform look and feel they felt we should present to visitors.

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Except of course, this never happened. I’m just feeling more and more that what’s happening in this country on (and the whole world!) is that individuality is less and less appreciated. Rather than encouraging individuality, we’re forcing people to conform to a homogeneous ideal. I simply used the concept of my housing cooperative to explore the concept.

The corporations (most obviously represented by the media-maffia) feel threatened since people now have the power to distribute their own creative works with none or very little cost. This threatens a business-model that’s built on not creating anything, but by controlling the flow of creativity from others. The Internet has rendered record companies virtually obsolete, since musicians now can distribute their own music.

Politicians feel threatened by the Internet since it allows limitless communication. No longer do we have to rely on the filtered and controlled information that they allow us through controlled outlets such as radio and television. Instead we can communicate endlessly, and with immediate reaction. Blogs and chats and direct interaction between citizens threaten to overthrow their empire of bureaucracy. This is unacceptable for them, since they want to maintain the status quo where they can use a system they control against the majority of the citizens.

Add to this mix a lot of greed and stupidity and you have a recipe for a dystopian future where the most amazing invention humankind has ever created (the Internet) is being used to control the vast majority for the benefit of a small clique of self-appointed elite.

One of the most common thing proponents of a draconian society uses is the phrase “if you’re clean you have nothing to worry about… ” which implies that if you’re a law-abiding citizen you should simply accept this invasion of privacy and loss of rights they’re trying to push on you.

Imagine a future society where everything you do is monitored. Not even George Orwell in his wildest imagination could’ve dreamt up such a horrible dystopia, and it’s all thanks to corporations and politicians corrupting the beautiful internet for their own hidden agendas.

It could start innocently enough. Think about it, virtually every computer today has a webcam – either built-in or attached through a cable. What if some politicians decided that every webcam had to be monitored via a government-installed piece of software? Just to make sure that you’re a law-abiding citizen. I mean, if you’re law-abiding you have nothing to hide, right? Just install the software and we won’t suspect you of anything. If you don’t install it, then that automatically means you have something to hide, and they will decide without informing you what kind of freak you are – even though you just wanted to maintain the right to privacy.

This is why you need to vote for your local Pirate party. If there is none, you need to start one. Before it’s too late, before commercial and political interests have corrupted our society into the one I describe above.

Den här gången hävdas det att Tomas Norström inte var jävig. Det är tingsrätten som slår fast detta, och går därmed ut offentligt och bekräftar att de är antingen

A. Korrupta.
eller
B. Fullständigt pantade.

Det är inte heller omöjligt att tingsrätten är både och. Jag tycker det är uppenbart för vem som helst att han var genomrutten. Det här stärker inte mitt förtroende för det svenska rättsväsendet, som verkar ha fler hål än en schweizerost.

Om Tomas Norström inte är jävig så väntar jag på att en hord med apor kommer att spruta ut ur min röv precis vilken sekund som helst.

UPPDATERING 090601: Nu har masken fallit och upphovsmannen (“Johannes”) har tagit ordet från munnen. Både bra och tråkigt, jag fann satiren enormt underhållande.