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Democracy

Does it allow for 51% of a country population to dictate the way of life and define what happiness means to the other 49%?

Does it allow for street mob to dictate government policies and change laws?

What Pericles said over two millennia ago:

“If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences…if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition. The freedom we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. There, far from exercising a jealous surveillance over each other, we do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbor for doing what he likes…

We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing, although the eyes of an enemy may occasionally profit by our liberality … advancement in public life falls to reputations for capacity, class considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit … our ordinary citizens, though occupied with the pursuits of industry, are still fair judges of public matters … at Athens we live exactly as we please, and yet are just as ready to encounter every legitimate danger.”

Free Speech

Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, states that:

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”

George Orwell Animal Farm:

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

Evelyn Beatrice Hall on Voltaire’ beliefs:

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Religion

 

Even Though I Walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Will Fear No Evil, for You Are with Me.

Self Defense

“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free”
                  The Weapon Shops of Isher – A.E. van Vogt, 1951

United States Constitution, Second Amendment:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Noah Webster argument:

“Before a standing army can rule the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.”

James Monroe included “the right to keep and bear arms” in a list of basic “human rights”, which he proposed to be added to the Constitution.

Patrick Henry argued in the Virginia ratification convention on June 5, 1788, for the dual rights to arms and resistance to oppression:

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Cyber War

Limit the possibility of a hacker attack by refusing incoming connection from the following IP ranges:

https://www.roberthedrock.org/wp/block-incoming-connections-from-the-following-ip-ranges/

Drastically limit hackers’ attacks by entering in the firewall rules to deny incoming and outgoing connections from IP in the following ranges:

https://www.roberthedrock.org/wp/block-all-connections-with-an-ip-from-the-following-ranges/

Live Cyber Attack Threat Map:

https://www.checkpoint.com/

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Block all connections with an IP from the following ranges

0.0.0.1 – 1.53.79.255 1.68.0.0 – 2.14.191.255 2.25.0.0 – 3.9.255.255 4.0.0.0 – 4.255.255.255 5.28.62.0 – 5.149.253.255 5.152.205.128 – 5.197.127.255 5.199.128.0 – 8.8.3.255 14.1.28.0 – 14.199.255.255 23.227.96.0 – 23.229.255.255 23.247.0.0 – 23.253.127.255 24.202.99.0 – 31.13.63.255 31.13.200.0 – 31.28.255.255 31.29.40.0 – 31.58.163.255 31.111.0.0 – 31.186.99.255 31.192.228.0 – 31.223.184.255 35.248.0.0 – 37.58.63.255 37.59.66.224 – 37.61.222.95 37.77.192.0 – 37.123.130.255 37.139.16.0 …

Block incoming connections from the following IP ranges

8.30.202.0 – 8.255.255.255 11.0.0.0 – 12.30.166.151 12.44.72.0 – 12.44.79.255 13.52.0.0 – 13.59.255.255 23.19.0.0 – 23.30.127.255 23.80.0.0 – 23.92.31.255 23.104.0.0 – 23.111.255.255 23.129.64.0 – 23.139.0.255 23.224.0.0 – 23.226.239.255 23.231.0.0 – 23.231.127.255 23.236.64.0 – 23.245.255.255 23.254.0.0 – 24.7.127.255 24.41.128.0 – 24.143.63.255 24.145.0.0 – 24.158.191.255 24.193.0.0 – 24.193.255.255 35.0.0.0 – 35.127.255.255 35.208.0.0 – 35.247.255.255 45.34.0.0 – 45.37.255.255 45.55.0.0 …

Wikipedia Position on Religion

Wikipedia Position on Religion “Religion is a modern Western concept. Parallel concepts are not found in many current and past cultures; there is no equivalent term for religion in many languages.”