Words with Purpose

So now I’m a blogger. Ho-hum.

Not so fast.

This article here is kind of scary.

Yes, there are laws designed to keep the powerful protected, even at the expense of the public which they are sworn to protect. In Malaysia today, the government has arrested a blogger who published information embarrassing to the current regime under the authority of an anti-sedition law. In this case, it was the Internal Security Act.

Malaysia has one, the US has many, peruse the Executive Orders here (and read the various flavors of the PATRIOT ACT), Russia has always had them; they exist in many countries in the so-called ‘developed world’.

So, read between the lines.

Think.

It may keep you out of jail. And alive.