Wil's Rant

The efforts of multiple police forces has resulted in the arrests of several severe child-porn internet criminals. It's good to see that some positive results are coming out of international co-operation in these days of constant conflict. I still can't get over how anyone could do this to a kid, much less a group of people working together to destroy kids for their own pleasure and/or profit. I don't go In for the secret monitoring of the internet by police forces or intelligence agencies. However, I would willingly give up these rights to privacy if it meant that no kid would ever have to go through this again. Hell, I'd give up this right if it meant that one kid would be saved. Guess what Billie, there are monsters out there! They look just like people! We have to stop them! I would rather have the cops watching what I do on the Internet than some politically motivated intelligence operatives who might want to silence my voice. The world is not a safe place. Not in Iraq! Not in North America! Have doubts... read a paper! If we pretend that the reality is anything other than what it is, the suffering will continue. We must let the cops do their job. The restrictions on them have always been designed to prevent abuse of authority. Science is making vast leaps along these lines. We may be able to allow cops to do their thing while still protecting our rights with the proper checks and balances in the system. These issues have to be addressed to head into the future and a new world. It can be done! We really can have a democracy. The first step if for people to realize that it really is us against them. Them being big governments and bureaucracy and the multi-nationals. We must take our democracy back from the path they would have it take. The path that makes them richer and us more ignorant. People of all parties must unite to demand accountability from our leaders, with a liberal dose of honesty thrown in for good measure. If democracy is the true goal then Sunnis would not be killing Shiites and vise versa. Instead they would unite in support of the will of the people. Not everyone voted for George Bush. That doesn't mean that half of America has taken up arms against the other half.