{"id":92,"date":"2009-07-05T05:33:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T12:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jausoft.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2009-07-05T05:33:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T12:33:46","slug":"pirates-may-save-your-freedom-happy-4th-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/05\/pirates-may-save-your-freedom-happy-4th-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates may Save YOUR Freedom (Happy 4th of July)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When the Nazis came for the <a title=\"Communist\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Communist\">communists<\/a>,<br \/>\nI remained silent;<br \/>\nI was not a communist.Then they locked up the <a title=\"Social democrat\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_democrat\">social democrats<\/a>,<br \/>\nI remained silent;<br \/>\nI was not a social democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for the <a title=\"Trade union\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trade_union\">trade unionists<\/a>,<br \/>\nI did not protest;<br \/>\nI was not a trade unionist.<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for the <a title=\"Jews\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jews\">Jews<\/a>,<br \/>\nI did not speak out;<br \/>\nI was not a Jew.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_they_came...\">When they came for me,<br \/>\nthere was no one left to speak out for me.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Martin Niem\u00f6ller, 1892-1984<\/span><\/em><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just a little time ago, we learned about the <a href=\"http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\/\">pirate bay<\/a> court case, the best outcome of it might be the birth of the <em>Pirate Party<\/em>, world wide.<br \/>\nWhy this name, why pirates? Well, in the court case <em>they<\/em> were accused to act like pirates for offering URL&#8217;s (links\/references) to any form of media transported via the torrent peer-to-peer protocol. For the computer literate this is as if you were responsible for actions of others, just because you have referenced them in your book &#8211; choose the media of your choice.<\/p>\n<p>This court case might have led reaching  critical mass to wake up the people. Utilizing the very responsibility every citizen has within a democracy, <a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/1486780\/\">act &#8211; don&#8217;t expect others to help your case<\/a>. Especially not the other, not literate enough to understand the high potential risk our <em>still <\/em>free society is currently undergoing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patriot_Act\">The Patriot<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patriot_Act#Critical_views\">Act<\/a> vs <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_of_speech\">Freedom of Speech<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Criticism_of_patents\">Patent Law<\/a> vs <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Invention#Invention_and_innovation\">Innovation<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Invention#In_art.2C_design_and_architecture\">Invention<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Copyright vs Accessible Information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.. just to name a few collisions, threatening our very room for development, which somehow is granted\u00a0 in all our constitutions &#8211; if you enjoy such privileges.<\/p>\n<p>Following the USA Patriot Act, the German government for example <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pdIA0jeW-24\">logs all communications headers <\/a>(from-, to-address, date and time, etc) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubistterrorist.de\/en\/\">of text messages, emails, phone calls<\/a> etc. Lately they even ruled in favor of a Internet filter\/censorship infrastructure using the excuse that the Internet shall not be a realm without law. Indeed the ridiculous and very publicity case of child pornography was being (ab)used. Abused because even experts in this fields know that those criminals won&#8217;t just surf on such a website, use other medias or at least high encryption systems &#8211; which goes for all criminal, and the latter for all information sensitive citizens. Welcome <strong>1984<\/strong>. <em>Sanctity of the mail, privacy. <\/em>Without such and with available information of who consumes what and which side you are on &#8211; especially even being aware of it &#8211; renders many people silent. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shock_and_awe\">Shock and Awe<\/a> established (9\/11, terror, crime, war, ..) and anticipatory obedience expected, otherwise ridiculed or just declared as an enemy. Welcome to <strong>2009<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The bad economy actually <em>helping <\/em>the situation. Who is still willing to stand up and speak for themselves?<br \/>\nRisking loosing the job, probably no health insurance .. etc.<br \/>\nOf course, I have though about the risks of blabbering my thoughts in public, but in the end, it is our very duty to defend our democracy, our constitution,<br \/>\nfor ourselves, for the future of our children and our deer fellow citizens of this planet.<br \/>\n(I don&#8217;t call it <em>nation<\/em>, since this meaning is buried for a long time already. Our societies are intermingled and all depend on each other, the powerful so called western world vs the still unprivileged countries, which we will <em>free<\/em>, since they shall become valuable trade partners in the future.)<br \/>\nBeing afraid to speak out contrarian ideas might be an indication of the lack of independence, the absence of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Our still free countries become more alike Iran, China or other totalitarian regimes, <a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/2272046\">don&#8217;t say it can&#8217;t happen here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSpeak up &#8211; speak loud &amp; clear, defend our free system &#8211; whatever you think it is, capitalism or socialism.<br \/>\nTo be honest, the declaration, the law doesn&#8217;t matter, if it is not executed by it&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p>True competition without subsidies and artificial patent claims might be as healthy as a <a href=\"http:\/\/cow.neondragon.net\/index.php\/a-utopian-star-trek-society-making-economics-redundant\">Star Trek society<\/a> which tries to reach out for a common goal,<br \/>\nas long we hold on to our ethics and <em>love <\/em>our competitors. Just to provoke a little debate \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>After all this blabbering .. you may ask what has all of this to do with the Pirate Parties ?<br \/>\nRead their website &#8211; they all deal with these issues &#8211; the very building blocks of our freedom, privacy &amp; innovative potential.<\/p>\n<p>Since I currently live in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirstamendment.org\/antislappresourcecenter.html\">beautiful State of California<\/a>,<br \/>\nI hopefully honor this day with a\u00a0 call to reclaim our freedom and wish all of you a <a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/2319466\">happy 4th of July<\/a>!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jausoft.com\/politics\/pirate-parties\/\">The Pirate Party goes international, world wide.<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/embassyofpiracy.org\/\">Embassy of Piracy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hackerswithoutborders.net\/index.php\/Main_Page\">Hackers Without Borders<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/opennet.net\/\">OpenNet Initiative<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bancocomun.org\/\">The Bank of Common Knowledge<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate-party.us\/\">Pirate Party of the USA<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memwiki.pirate-party.us\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Memo Wiki (issues .. pre manifest)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piratepartyofcanada.com\/\">Pirate Party of Canada<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pirateparty.wikia.com\/wiki\/Issues_to_Cover\">Issues .. (pre manifest)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piratenpartei.de\/\">Pirate Party of Germany<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ich.waehlepiraten.de\/parteiprogramm\">Manifest (german)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fich.waehlepiraten.de%2Fparteiprogramm&amp;sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8\">Manifest (google-english translation)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.Then they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. Then they came for the trade unionists, I did not protest; I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, I did&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/05\/pirates-may-save-your-freedom-happy-4th-of-july\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pirates may Save YOUR Freedom (Happy 4th of July)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[10,12,14,18],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","tag-copyright","tag-democracy","tag-freedom","tag-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}