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Quotes:
"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with
his (their) privacy, family, home or correspondence,
nor to attacks upon his (their) honour and reputation.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the law
against such interference or attacks."
United Nations, Article 12, Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, 1948
"We do it because we can."
Anonymous news reporter
“Big Brother is watching you.”
George Orwell
"Overly curious people with big egos who
illegally spy on others may not share this viewpoint, but will
eventually go to the wayside the same as the Neanderthal.
Furthermore, those involved may not understand what this
statement means or the future consequences of their actions.
Moreover, those who are aware of their actions
and the future consequences of illegal spying – are no less than a malicious
thief with the mark of the beast."
Robert Franklin, response to President Bush's statement
on 08/08/08:
"Let people say
what they think."
"Members of what is now the secretive fictitious "Illegal Eavesdroppers Club"
that will be of the norm in the future ruled by dictators will not be raptured
for they will have the mark of the beast."
Robert Franklin
"Information is power and whoever controls the information
will control the minds of people."
Robert Franklin
“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who
controls the past, controls the future.”
George Orwell
"A political promise to do something 40 years from now is
universally ignored because everyone knows that's
meaningless."
Al
Gore, 07/17/08 AP News article: "Gore
sets energy goal for next president to heed."
"If we do not plan in advance, then WWIII could sneak-up
on us all and catch us with our pants down."
Robert Franklin, response to Al Gore's 07/17/08 AP News
article.
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities
committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity
for not even hearing about them.”
George Orwell
"When it comes to privacy and accountability, people
always demand the former for themselves and the
latter for everyone else.”
David Brin
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania,
1759
"The hackers are getting very sophisticated. They seem to
think that the norms we expect for people's privacy don't
apply to them. It's sort of like electronic voyeurism."
Kathryn Showers,
Deputy in Charge,
Los
Angeles County District Attorney High Tech Crimes
Division.
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending
too much liberty than to those attending too small
a degree of it."
Thomas Jefferson
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the
freedom to make mistakes."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is
competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely
honest."
Isaac Asimov
"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom
or prudence, our servant may prove to be our
executioner."
Omar Bradley
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The
savage's whole existence is public, ruled by
the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free
from me."
Ayn Rand
"The American people must be willing to give up a degree
of personal privacy in exchange for safety and
security."
Louis Freeh
"If you mind your own business, you won't be minding
mine."
Hank Williams
"Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free
people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless
of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a
more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty."
Esther Dyson
"Privacy is the right to be alone - the most comprehensive
of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man."
Louis D. Brandeis
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country
against his government."
Edward Abbey
"Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful
government and in an increasingly powerful private sector
will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should
give way to national security, to law and order, to
efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the
like."
Justice William O.
Douglas
"Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and
terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which,
of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since
it is based on the greatest possible accumulation
of depotentiated social units."
Carl Gustav Jung
"If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can’t
protect their conversations, in particular their political
conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a
transition from a free society to a totalitarian
society."
Whitfield Diffie
"The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend.
It is one of the great landmarks in men’s struggle to
be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized."
Justice William O.
Douglas
"We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some
things the general public does not need to know, and
shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government
can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets
and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."
Katherine Graham
"It is dangerous
to be right when the government is wrong."
Voltaire
Bill of
Rights
of the Constitution of the United States:
First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right
of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances.
Second Amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a
free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,
shall not be infringed.
Third Amendment:
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house,
without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a
manner to be prescribed by law.
Fourth Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue,
but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and
particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
persons or things to be seized.
Fifth Amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise
infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a
Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval
forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of
War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the
same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor
shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness
against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law; nor shall private
property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Sixth Amendment:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the
right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of
the State and district wherein the crime shall have been
committed, which district shall have been previously
ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause
of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against
him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his
favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Seventh Amendment:
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall
exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be
preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise
re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according
to the rules of the common law.
Eighth Amendment:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines
imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Ninth Amendment:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall
not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the
people.
Tenth Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved
to the States respectively, or to the people.
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