Dana G. Smith

The alarm should of been sounded a very long time ago. When the internet was first out, I was living in another city. The system was new then and the companies where I live did not have good phone lines, and used only 1200 mps download. It was a time when signing up was new and AOL was one of the first ones in our area to put up lines in different cities for everyone to access the net.

Then my next door neighbor put a system in his house for connecting to the internet. I was one of the first ones to sign up on his little system. As time went on, software became better, along with installation methods for the whole internet business system. In time my neighbor moved it all to an office. Today, he is the largest provider in our state. He grew with the net.

As the net has progressed, the government has always wanted to know what we all do on the net. Spending hours a day in front of the computer chatting with someone from across the world is new. As an ardent website developer, writer, and net evangelist, I do allot online. The government, though, with technology can trace all we do. From cookies to spy ware, our job to stay unrecognized is harder to do.

With all this, we have people who want to take our information, credit cards, and privacy information and make it theirs. The boon in the internet has been tremendous. The problem is with success, the governments of the world want their share. They want your money and want to know what you are doing. They don’t like your reporting, writing articles, and blogging that you do. They don’t like you telling it like it is for all to read.

In short, the government has become the biggest enemy you have online. The latest report from the Committee to Protect Journalists in its newest research shows that:

“as of Dec. 1, 2006, there were 134 journalists imprisoned, up nine from one year earlier, with China, Cuba, Eritrea and Ethiopia the top four prison-keepers”.

This is a startling report because it also includes internet journalists. The report also said and WorldNet daily mentioned it in its article titled; ‘More Web reporters going to prison’, that:

“Of these 134 imprisoned journalists, Internet journalists now constitute the second largest category, with 49 cases.”

“Many of the claims against journalists, especially in China, Cuba and Ethiopia, include subversion, divulging state secrets, acting against the interests of the state and other similar counts.”

“But the CPJ also noted that a rising number of journalists are being held without any charge or trial, including at least two held by the United States.”

In the report, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on its website in an article titled; ‘Internet fuels rise in number of jailed journalists’ that a number were being held without charge. Further the CPJ report said:

“We’re at a crucial juncture in the fight for press freedom because authoritarian states have made the Internet a major front in their effort to control information,” CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon said. “China is challenging the notion that the Internet is impossible to control or censor, and if it succeeds there will be far-ranging implications, not only for the medium but for press freedom all over the world.”

Over all, “anti-state” allegations such as subversion, divulging state secrets, and acting against the interests of the state are the most common charges used to imprison journalists worldwide. Eighty-four journalists are jailed under these charges, many by the Chinese, Cuban, and Ethiopian governments.

The new found freedom on the net is being challenged daily by governments all over the world. For those who want to speak and write the truth, it may be dangerous. Many around the world now face such trouble for doing so. This trouble is fomented by greedy power hungry people in government. Wicked men and women who see nothing at all wrong about creating a government power structure to crush opposition and imprison innocent people.

America also is on the forefront of this battle as well. For those in this nation, we have seen our own freedoms challenged by the terrorist act, and the attempts to make America into the North American Union. Add to this the Amero and the Super highway, and you have a recipe for destroying America. While America sleeps, wicked men aim to put this nation and others into a one world government where a few will have all the power. This few will also control the former free, world wide internet. Technology has made controlling the internet possible. Wicked men have taken this Technology and will use it to control what you and I say. The evidence is there, just look for it.
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