Jan
30th
Mon
30th
holy crap does this still work?
oh hai tumblr.
Dec
1st
Wed
1st
The United States is nominally a democracy, but it’s sadly ridiculous to think this means very much. To get at the value of WikiLeaks, I think it’s important to distinguish between the government—the temporary, elected authors of national policy—and the state—the permanent bureaucratic and military apparatus superficially but not fully controlled by the reigning government. The careerists scattered about the world in America’s intelligence agencies, military, and consular offices largely operate behind a veil of secrecy executing policy which is itself largely secret. American citizens mostly have no idea what they are doing, or whether what they are doing is working out well. The actually-existing structure and strategy of the American empire remains a near-total mystery to those who foot the bill and whose children fight its wars. And that is the way the elite of America’s unelected permanent state, perhaps the most powerful class of people on Earth, like it.
— The Economist, In defence of WikiLeaks, 29 November 2010
Nov
21st
Sun
21st
Kathleen Parker Washington Post editorial November 21, 2010
“But more alarming than the apparatuses is our willingness to go lowing into the night. Incrementally, we adapt to the stripping of civil liberties until, with the passage of time and the blinkering of generational memory, we no longer remember when things were otherwise.”
Apr
22nd
Wed
22nd
Someone told me this the other day. I’m still thinking about it: It’s easy to believe that people you don’t see often don’t think or care about you, just as it’s also easy to care a lot about someone you don’t see very often but not give any sign of it.
Jun
13th
Fri
13th
digital freedom stickers from DC event
