A Closed Society?
With palms together
Good Morning Everyone,
So, a sunrise arrives with a whisper. we shave my conduct as good as clean a razor, make a coffee as good as read my sunrise mail. It is a standard morning, but for a hour. For a little reason we woke during about 2:30 AMit might be due to a fact which we went to nap usually after dark. Hmmm, note to self, try not to do that.
I re-read which post by Naomi Wolf from Huffington. we afterwards took a look during a Espionage Act itself as good as how it has been enforced, as good as a little other acts. The Military Commissions Act of 2006, for example, gives a president or his nominee a energy to acknowledgement any a single (including typical American citizens) an enemy combatant. we fright Naomi Wolf is onto something.
Here have been her ten steps to a sealed society:
10 steps which tighten an open society
1. plead an inner as good as external threat
People who have been fearful have been peaceful to do things which they wouldnt otherwise do.
2. settle tip (unaccountable) prisons where woe takes place
In a tip system, a supervision does not have to yield any proof of indiscretion by those it holds, so it can incarcerate any a single it wants.
3. rise a paramilitary force
A in isolation military force underneath a exclusive direction of a commander in chief with no burden to Congress, a courts, or a open blurs a line in between a municipal police force as good as a militarized police state.
4. surveil typical citizens
People who hold they have been being watched have been reduction expected to voice opposition. To scare a population into silence, a supervision need usually guard a activities of a few to make everyone fright which they have been being survei! lled. Ev ery sealed multitude keeps a list of so-called opponents it tracks.
5. infiltrate citizens groups
Spies in romantic groups put psychological pressure upon genuine activists by undermining their certitude in a single another. They may also disrupt legal activities, undermining a efficacy of group efforts.
6. detain as good as recover typical citizens
Detention intimidates or psychologically damages those arrested as good as also lets everyone know which any a single could be labeled an enemy combatant as good as disappeared.
7. aim pass individuals
People have been reduction expected to verbalise out when those who have been rarely visible, similar to journalists, scholars, artists, or celebrities, have been intimidated or have a livelihoods threatened. Targeting those who have been generally visible creates it reduction expected which people will verbalise out as good as robs multitude of leaders as good as others who might inspire opposition.
8. shorten a press
The open is reduction expected to fi nd out about supervision indiscretion if a supervision can threaten to prosecute any a single who publishes or broadcasts reports which have been vicious of a government.
9. recast criticism as espionage as good as dissent as treason
People who criticism can be charged with terrorism or treason when laws criminalize or limit giveaway speech rather than protect it.
10. subvert a rule of law
The disappearance of checks as good as balances creates it simpler to acknowledgement armed forces law, generally if a judiciary bend continues to use management over people but has no management over a Executive branch.
See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/ten-steps-to-close-down-a_b_46695.html
What does this have to do with Zen? Everything. We cannot use in a sealed society. Our multitude is apropos reduction as good as reduction tolerant as we turn some-more as good as some-more frightened. A piece upon a BBC usually forked out a difficulties with religious garb, for example, when a TSA deciided an Indian ambassador needed to be both patted down as good as have his conduct covering searched we was patted down myself when we refused to remove my rakusu.
A giveaway multitude is a vital society, a sealed multitude is a dying society. Open societies, whilst scattered during times, have been vibrant, healthy, as good as peaceful to take a risks freedom requires.
Where do we suppose we might be?
Be well, be free.Zen wisdom for every day living.
Good Morning Everyone,
So, a sunrise arrives with a whisper. we shave my conduct as good as clean a razor, make a coffee as good as read my sunrise mail. It is a standard morning, but for a hour. For a little reason we woke during about 2:30 AMit might be due to a fact which we went to nap usually after dark. Hmmm, note to self, try not to do that.
I re-read which post by Naomi Wolf from Huffington. we afterwards took a look during a Espionage Act itself as good as how it has been enforced, as good as a little other acts. The Military Commissions Act of 2006, for example, gives a president or his nominee a energy to acknowledgement any a single (including typical American citizens) an enemy combatant. we fright Naomi Wolf is onto something.
Here have been her ten steps to a sealed society:
10 steps which tighten an open society
1. plead an inner as good as external threat
People who have been fearful have been peaceful to do things which they wouldnt otherwise do.
2. settle tip (unaccountable) prisons where woe takes place
In a tip system, a supervision does not have to yield any proof of indiscretion by those it holds, so it can incarcerate any a single it wants.
3. rise a paramilitary force
A in isolation military force underneath a exclusive direction of a commander in chief with no burden to Congress, a courts, or a open blurs a line in between a municipal police force as good as a militarized police state.
4. surveil typical citizens
People who hold they have been being watched have been reduction expected to voice opposition. To scare a population into silence, a supervision need usually guard a activities of a few to make everyone fright which they have been being survei! lled. Ev ery sealed multitude keeps a list of so-called opponents it tracks.
5. infiltrate citizens groups
Spies in romantic groups put psychological pressure upon genuine activists by undermining their certitude in a single another. They may also disrupt legal activities, undermining a efficacy of group efforts.
6. detain as good as recover typical citizens
Detention intimidates or psychologically damages those arrested as good as also lets everyone know which any a single could be labeled an enemy combatant as good as disappeared.
7. aim pass individuals
People have been reduction expected to verbalise out when those who have been rarely visible, similar to journalists, scholars, artists, or celebrities, have been intimidated or have a livelihoods threatened. Targeting those who have been generally visible creates it reduction expected which people will verbalise out as good as robs multitude of leaders as good as others who might inspire opposition.
8. shorten a press
The open is reduction expected to fi nd out about supervision indiscretion if a supervision can threaten to prosecute any a single who publishes or broadcasts reports which have been vicious of a government.
9. recast criticism as espionage as good as dissent as treason
People who criticism can be charged with terrorism or treason when laws criminalize or limit giveaway speech rather than protect it.
10. subvert a rule of law
The disappearance of checks as good as balances creates it simpler to acknowledgement armed forces law, generally if a judiciary bend continues to use management over people but has no management over a Executive branch.
See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/ten-steps-to-close-down-a_b_46695.html
What does this have to do with Zen? Everything. We cannot use in a sealed society. Our multitude is apropos reduction as good as reduction tolerant as we turn some-more as good as some-more frightened. A piece upon a BBC usually forked out a difficulties with religious garb, for example, when a TSA deciided an Indian ambassador needed to be both patted down as good as have his conduct covering searched we was patted down myself when we refused to remove my rakusu.
A giveaway multitude is a vital society, a sealed multitude is a dying society. Open societies, whilst scattered during times, have been vibrant, healthy, as good as peaceful to take a risks freedom requires.
Where do we suppose we might be?
Be well, be free.Zen wisdom for every day living.
