See invitation for the meeting
The excessive security aspect has become a problem in our lives ever since we integrated into NATO, and then in the EU, then we managed to face with brio the "tests" these organizations have arranged for us. Perhaps the pride of the Romanians was not to be inferior to those great "powers" of Western economic, or show our fear of poverty and how useless we are as a state to the European political and economical discussion, when we carry only a function of pion, many times of sacrifice, in their game of chess.
It was also mentioned in political or economical circles, restricted or wide (at local and regional organizations, or meetings of the Future Group, when discussing future directions for the EU) about how much it is needed to control "breaches" in the new holy war of capitalism: the struggle against a "terrorism" who in fact is non-existent, but that includes everything that opposes them, so a war against us, against the people who have the courage to say "Why?" and "Until when?". So, things started to be applied, first as a test, in the U.S., then England and now the continent, in the newly born "United States of Europe". And because this system has not always had evidence that was pretty conclusive about people being “terrorists”, it started handling those evidence (as was the case of 6 activists in Belgrade, who now have a process pending on terrorism !?!), in order to "shut us up" (or punch, if they ran out of words – as was the case in the Anti-NATO 2008) and try applying dictum "divide and rule"…
Beyond the public or secret motivations of these excesses in controlling citizens, beyond the new security organizations that emerged as flies round something sweet, beyond manipulation by all media, which have become the new voice capitalism trends and its “way out” try also for further expansion (perhaps in worst of conditions for us, the people), beyond Oilcloth politicians, led by financial interests of some few (which guide their expenses and strengthen their business or merges their losses in our pocket), beyond of this, new measures of security and control are at least a violation of personal security and privacy of each of us…
If in the past, in the name of the church, there were atrocities hard to believe or imagine, for purely political or economic purposes, the theater of action has not changed, only the actors. Strategies used confirm the usefulness of the term "history repeats itself" and that, at least for the Romanians, people have short memory. To understand that we are better only under the totalitarian regimes? Do we instinctively wish for hand cuffs and yoke around our neck, consciously? Maybe wish for a halter? How anyone can argue the futility of the word "freedom" when is accompanied by conditions? How blind can we be, as people do not feel even that they are pulling the strings from above, for each, and the psychology of the masses is just a small chapter in what happens now? Therefore, resistance began to emerge throughout the West, where the first signs of the repressive actions of capitalism appeared as well. On the theme of our meeting including (as it is OutOfControl group – the source of information for many of our materials -, but not only – because especially in the Balkans, activism has begun to recover from apathy), which encouraged us to perpetuate this custom in Romania as well, by starting this kind of meetings.
We all noticed that all the authorities’ actions were given a beautiful face. And also allocates huge sums of public money fighting an unseen enemy, even nonexistent, using big words with resonance, precisely in order to move the collective consciousness to accept these financial tricks. They invest in what appears to be in our help, for our safety and our children. In order to move quietly through the streets and sleep sweetly in our beds, under the careful guard of their courageous interventions. By that they justify, rudely, against the usefulness of their institutions that do nothing but contribute to a further repression of personal freedoms and an even greater protection of a system about to collapse … The camera system of the streets is to protect us from thieves? Listening to all our calls is to prevent any catastrophic attacks on peaceful people? Registration of all Internet traffic is to protect us in the sacred anti-terror war they started? The fact that we as a country, we have an extremely large number of Intelligence employees is because we are extremely concerned by threats from the outside or inside? Do we have a common denominator in all this abuse? We say that yes, we do!
Methods to counter these effects of extreme security measures are primarily common sense and general culture, more than technical. There are alternative ways to use what is common (as for example, stop using your personal computer when sending very sensitive information – use an internet café, doh…). Alternatives to ensure more privacy both online and in regards calls (could we mention encryption here?). Yes, you say that you have nothing to hide, but would you make public all your conversations? What do you think of the "man-in-the-middle", a silent witness to all that you do or say or write? How do you feel when you are being watched? Do you really feel more free? Consensus of all participants was: YES, time for ACTION.
We are not naive; we know this will require time and energy. But is it a too expensive price compared to the price of our freedom?
Of course, in their fear of losing unnecessarily place in society, the authorities react. Yes, we have been examined also including our web-site (114 hits last month from IPs from the Special Transmissions Service on hrananubombe.dap.ro) … We are sure that this is not just a practice of excessive zeal of the police, who started to act more as a thought police, in a country that is becoming more and more a police state. When they supervise, or invent reasons to “donate” us a fine ticket, or to take us “for a chat” to the station, or they destroy peaceful demonstrations in excess of violence (and here I speak not only for incidents during summits or Christiania, when police came into force to crash one party …) , what else is being shown through their actions? … That they are here to protect us? …
Indeed, our meeting was supposed to last longer, perhaps have even more guests. We also understand that it is the start of an initiative. Which will have continuity. We can not tell the first that will respond positively if they will be in the north of our country, or east, or south, or west, does not really matter, but that message is sent on. There is a "to be continued" and this is our alarm signal. Yes, we still have to work to organize, because perfection is only an advertising concept, in which are hidden major defects. Yes, we consider a more into depth overview of each of the themes proposed, through more days for the next meeting. But the fact that the meeting generated positive opinions from all participants, lets us understand that YES, people in Romania have started to wake up the harmful effects of this drug called "rush for CAPITALISM" …
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