I agree with Ron Paul in promoting Freedom, but I also want to promote Freedom without sacrificing Security, and without promoting an environment for racketeering. Based upon the combined efforts of a group of unethical businessmen (big business), they could force a large portion of the population into indenturement and slavery because of their ability to do so. So absolute freedom without some system to protect the individual will promote an environment of oppression; the opposite of freedom.
Method to Ethically Eliminate ALL Political Corruption
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I agree with some parts of the video and disagree with others. Freedom has a relationship to our chosen time spent and the property that we accumulate through our efforts and time spent. However, the methods by which a group of people coerce property from others is seldom respected in human nature; we as people are short sighted and pursue gains based upon a narrow focus of self interest. Only a small percentage of the human population is able to make an ethical choice in controlling the growth of the human population; most people continue to have more than two children. The world population has doubled in 30 years. So how is unrestricted freedom a choice?
According to the video, the entire United States should be turned back over to the Native Americans because it was swindled from them by force, trickery, and oppression. The "Treaties" promised were forced upon them, and then never honored by the oppressive european governments and later by the oppressive "American" government.
Any statements made in a context outside of broad consideration DO NOT possess consideration for the masses and are therefore "UNETHICAL".
The Right of Personal Privacy and the Freedom to Explore Personal Interests unmonitored is ideologically a wonderful concept; in Pre-2000 time frames!
The following shows the trends of instability related to technology and the power of the individual here in the United States.
Before 1776 when our political structure was created, the most destruction an individual could incite was to collect a group of supporters, build an army, and control an area for themselves. Social and military technologies made this possible. Slaves have often been condoned; the Romans, African nations, the early US, Spain, ... Slavery of even one person is a violation of freedom.
In the 1800's, an individual could conceive of an idea, get investor backing, and build anything they wanted without Government intervention. Steel mills polluted large areas of the environment for many decades and cleanup is on-going even today. Ungoverned industrial technology made this possible.
In the early 1900's, Hitler came into power. Millions of people died and thousands of years of artwork were destroyed. Works of many lifetimes of people were destroyed because of the centralized ideology of one person. How was he able to do so much with so little? Many nations new about Hitlers endeavors, but did little to avert his intended actions; no one knew how to deal with this new expression of technology. High tech development of his time, coupled with social and military stradegies.
In the 1950's, a high school student built a working nuclear weapon as a class project. Potentially, a teenager and a few radicals could have detonated a nuclear weapon in New York city killing millions of people. All the literature for building a nuclear weapon is available to the public. Though illegal, any electrical engineer can build one, this isn't even considered difficult today.
In the 1990's, researchers developed genetic poisons. Poisons that will only affect persons with a specific gene. Potentially, all persons of a specific demographic can be erradicated; without anyone knowing. A certain demographic would simply appear to be more susceptable to cancer or some other disease. The right to live taken by a group that no one knows about.
Around 2000, a research team near Chicago began developing a new nuclear technology dubbed "Total Anihilation". The attempt is to create a complex waveform that will disassociate the nuclear bonds of any atom and create vast amounts of clean power. This would release many trillions of times more energy per nuclear interaction than either a fission or a fussion. A tremendous gift to humanity if it works, providing for interstellar travel, comfort and food for all of humanity here on Earth or elsewhere, the ability to keep our Sun from dying, and products we can't presently imagine.
Or the devastation of our galaxy if it doesn't work as hoped. If the complex waveform propagates as a result of the energy released from breaking the nuclear bonds, and the mean free path for propagation is several feet, free floating hydrogen atoms in space are closer than that. A nuclear wildfire would ensue until the mean free path of propagation is less than the distance between free floating molecules out in space. We might not just kill ourselves, if there are other species in our galaxy, we kill them too. The right to live taken from everyone certainly on Earth, perhaps elsewhere as well.
What is the likelihood of this happening, hopefully the NSA knows enough to assign a task force to evaluate the risks; ethically!
Notice three concurrent conditions:
the decreasing periods of time between potentially destructive developments
the increasing destructive potentials of the developments
the fewer individuals that need to be involved for the development of the destructive technologies
What research will someone be working on in another 10 years, 25 years, 50 years, 100 years?
Notice also, all this happened within the lifespan of 2 people. That's right, two people living to be 105 years old represent the time that all this has taken place. We are a prolific species, what a person learns to do today, will be used in some subversive way tommorrow. This is why we need the "Structure" of our political system to be innately ethical, stable, and all knowing.
Within the next 40 years we most likely will develop direct interfaces between the human mind and computer systems. This will advance the development of new technologies, art, and music exponentially; as well as crime. An individual will be able to do the same amount of work within a few hours, that would take present engineers and artists a few years. This is based on a Government published report reviewed by Byte magazine around 1985.
In 2006, the US Government lost $9 Billion dollars to fund what? At first it was $6 Billion, than $9 Billion, and now in 2007 it is $12 Billion dollars lost. Don't you know? Halliburton was illegally given appropriations to develop the oil system in Iraq for private interests. By who? VP Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton.
What is being developed without our knowledge, representation, or approval? We currently have the technology available to directly control each individual as a slave, something similar to the electronic dog collar. Has the Presidential Office become so corrupt that it is to be used to impose destruction upon humanity and impose excessive control over free enterprise. Look at Iraq and the profiteering promoted by President Bush. Only a large and diverse representative ethical oversight committee can take back control from the Presidents special interest groups. The President is supposed to represent the peoples of the United States, not corporations.
Have you ever noticed that the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) is a "private" organization that directly and indirectly funds both sides of wars. Who is the money made by the Fed distributed to?
Rather than promoting the multi-trillion dollar business potentials of the Middle East, President Bush chose to allow private special interests to pocket well over $12 Billion dollars without equitable compensation to the American peoples.
The NSA maintains national security with what we would consider advanced technologies. Unfortunately, it is controlled and operated completely covertly with no legitimate public oversight and people of questionable ethical character have complete access to all information collected. This is concurrently both good and bad from a human rights point of view; an example follows.
The volume of information that the NSA processes includes everything from personal phone conversations, medical files, credit card use, pictures, genetic profiles, demographics, ... Imagine that an insurance company were able to obtain the medical files of American servicemen. Those servicemen with precursors for diabetes may have to pay significantly more for insurance, if they can get insurance at all, while the rest of the population will have to "continue" to pay the same premiums; a huge profit scenario for insurance companies, while unfairly burdening American servicemen.
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An ethical oversight committee is needed to ethically manage the National Security Agency (NSA). This organization should monitor everyone for dangerous technology development and provide guideance in maintaining safe development. Even the high school janitor can be experimenting with growing molds as a hobby today and accidentally track Anthrax throughout a school system tommorrow.
Government oversight of ALL peoples of the Earth and related corporations is necessary. The need is absolute and unquestionably necessary, the consequences as shown above. However, I personally do NOT want a world as described in the book called "1984", where the Government controls our lives from birth to death.
So what can we do to ensure an Ethical maximum in personal freedom and privacy while assuring that high technology research and business practices do not enslave, maime, destroy humanity, destroy our environment, or limit our personal freedoms that we presently fight for?
We do NOT need to give up a Freedom whenever we want to have more security !!!!!!
A system of self-balancing ethical management can be put into place to prevent the above scenarios while allowing a highly trained ethical group to monitor for extraordinarily dangerous research and destructive special interest practices. The only time an automated directive would be generated would be when a series of events showed a probable danger to our ecology, a threat to our economy, our freedoms are threatened, and/or for the survival of humanity. The NSA organization would then send employees to do a cursory review of the potentially destructive scenario and determine the level of regulation required for its safe and ethical implementation.
The janitor growing molds in his basement might be required to expose the molds he is growing to a pet mouse to determine toxicity on a continuing basis; just an example. The research team experimenting with a new nuclear process might need to be located off-world to minimize the risk of global anihilation, or maybe postpone actual experiementation until more data can be correlated to ensure a safe test. A police officer would be given an opportunity to correct their misdeeds, pending federal intervention. The serial killer could quickly be apprehended and placed into an environment where they could not kill. Kidnapped children recovered. The slave trade stopped around the world. Civil Rights maximized everywhere. The point is
"To do the greatest ethical good to ensure our freedoms".
I've covered the what and why; now let's get into the how and who.
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