The Tunisian & Egyptian revolutions were brought about by revelations on the WikiLeaks cable leaks.
The information spread on Twitter and Facebook on the World Wide Web on desktop, notebook and cell phone networked computers.
News from the street was seen by millions of people worldwide in real time.
Information is power. When secrets are on electronic media they can be accessed worldwide by millions of people. It’s nearly impossible for governments to operate in total secrecy.
Dictatorships will soon be a relic of the past. Dictatorships are by their nature top down organizations. Once the snakes head is cut off the snake is dead.
On the other hand corporations/organized crime are now utilizing digital communication for drop shipping packages and transferring funds. Corporations and organized crime can operate bottom up and top down. Corporations/organized crime are like worms; cut them anywhere and they grow back.
There was always a thin line between organized crime and legal corporations. You only have to go back to the “Robber Baron” days of the 19th and 20th Centuries to see it.
Electronic money laundering is a universal part of international banking. “Too big to fail” international bankers continue to operate worldwide Ponzi schemes that will need to be bailed out again in a decade or so.
Legal corporations and organized crime operate in an international grey area free and independent of the laws of any one nation. It’s not that the scales of justice are tipped in favor of corporations/organized crime, the scale is in a landfill.
Oppressive governments are no longer the real danger to a free society. The real threats to a free society are from corporations/organized crime.
This is indeed the case. But what to do?
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