Government needs revolution to ensure that it remembers who it answers to, men need revolution so they can remember what its like to have a pair, and women need revolution to get the men out of the house, and to weed out the idiots.
The number one epidemic in my mind for the United States and Canada (though I would say more so in the United States), is apathy. The children have grown to no longer care about what happens with their country as long as they can do the things that they are used to without fear, then they see no need to change the status quo. As long as government or adults give a reason which can be twisted into an explanation that somehow makes sense, the children don’t want to be involved.
I was talking to my younger brother the other day and he was telling me that his school this year installed cameras. I was explaining to him the inherent dangers of cameras, and asked what he and/or his friends were going to do to protest it. I remembered that even a couple years ago when my school did the same thing, our students were up in arms. He explained that he didn’t really care that much, that he wasn’t doing anything wrong, and he didn’t have to worry about it. I felt like a klingon whose son just said that he doesn’t really care about honor.
My little brother has signed his privacy at school, over to the administrators. He can now be tracked everywhere he goes in the school. I had asked him what would happen if they somehow used innocent footage of him against him, to which he replied at that time he would fight it. He does not understand that it will be too late, he will still be in trouble and potentially be held against him the rest of his time in high school.
Thats what happened when I went to that school, there was a fight outside near the busses, and one of the school bus drivers told the teacher that it was the kids “dressed in black”, and a couple of innocent girls got detention or some in-school suspension for this fight, that turns out was not their fault. In protest of this, the whole student body came to school the day after, wearing black. This could easily have been the same with a camera, simply “he went down the hall”, could turn a kid whose only crime was a full bladder, into a school bully. A schools rules may prohibit cell phone use, so a camera catching a girl calling her father (because what the cameras don’t know, is that her father is in the hospital), can turn a concerned student, into a girl who will now have her cell phone taken away until her parents (who clearly have better things to do), and she cannot communicate with them.
The reasons why cameras in schools are bad is well documented, and have shown time and time again that they do more harm then good. Of course the biggest reason being: Our civil liberties are all like a chain, it connects us to our quality of life. While people see some links as more valuable than others, in the end, when one breaks, the link is severed. After that, its very easy for anyone to simply walk by and steal your quality of life.
The sad reality is that the only way to fix it, is to do so before you are affected by it, but the children today (inspired by their parents), do not care, and will not care until they are directly affected by it… and then its too late. We will then count on our children to see our suffering and take arms again as they have done before.
Your rights are inalienable, people may try to break your chain’s links, but that does not mean that you have to let go, you can fight them. It’s your responsibility to your family, friends, and children that you fight them. My brother has let down the people around him by giving up his civil liberties. He will not realize this now, it will take years but soon he will understand. Hopefully a few of you realize this before its too late.. and you will join the revolution.