I live in the United States of America. I think that we are the most free country in the world, with the best hope of sustaining our god given liberties. I am a stong believer in the Constitution and the wisdom of the Founding Fathers. I am also a supporter of President Bush and his war on terrorists. And I believe that the largest threat to a free people does not come from foreign enemies, but from those that we have elected, the bureaucrats that they appoint and abdicate their power to.

A free country cannot survive when it has secret police, secret courts and secret laws. Doing so prevents the people from operating with the full set of facts. It allows corruption to creep into the fabric of government and hide from the light of truth. One example of this is illustrated by the efforts of EFF Founder John Gillmore. It started when he asked a simple question – ‘What law says I must show ID when boarding a plane?’ no-one was able to answer this, but they kept him from flying anyway.

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If we want to remain a free society our government needs to operate in the open, no matter how inconvenient it may be for them to do so. There is very little information that the government truly needs to keep hidden from public view (there is some), remember the security adage – “Security through obscurity is no security at all”.