Tonight, 23 March,
Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Laureate, posted a diary on behalf of his son Jack, who is running for Senator in Nevada, to remind the parties of the people everywhere that there
is a definition of morality, what is right, what is wrong, what is good, what is bad, what is ecumenical yet secular. However we may know religion, however we may know Jack, Sarah, Amy, Billy, Lillian or Rosalynn, we know, we presume to know, this reality by his perseverance, consistency and dedication to principles of cooperation and justice within political ramparts as well as family guidance . By placing his imprematur here upon a dkos diary, Jimmy Carter exhorted each of us to stand up and act for what we believe to be 'rights', a 'good' life, and above all individual affirmations of the rights of Others to be and foment democracy . He implies by his living example and political
suicide what is truth to power is simply accepting risk. And risk is merely the fear that one acts alone, isn't it?
I cried with many readers here at dkos. Hell, I cry most days, waking from a dream, rising to the day unfolding.
That said, I petition each and every author of dkos to sedition. Specifically, I beg private citizens and government employees of libraries and public schools in US rural communities to circumvent or disable filtering and rating systems deployed to IP addresses assigned by their ISP providers or physically installed on private, state-, or US government-owned PC apparatus.
I know you are out there.
I'm not providing a poll behind which you can hide your approval or disapproval. I will not expect explicit commitments below, because I understand that we all now live in a surveillance state, where the probability these sentimental artifacts may condemn your actions, literally and figuratively, is significant in a court of law. To date, there is nothing other than silence or the morass of digital anonymnity to indemnify free speech opposed to authoritarian laws enacted by US Congress and enforced by US Executive agencies.
Why? A Pew/Internet memo surfaced mid-February. Typically, analysts skip the infrastructural reality underlying America's hope for universal access. Here non-partisan, nonprofits examine gaps in "community-type" broadband use, 2002-2005, across America.
Netsroots handicap: 21% of rural web users read blogs
That is 79% of rural internet users don't subscribe to any netizen pub. So I implore you to designate Internet access hours for adult PC users that may exceed normal business hours and to maintain sufficient PC disk memory and administrative staff to support public users.
I suggest you pre load browser toolbar 'favorites' with links to or print a public list of non-partisan web news outlets, e.g. publishers of syndicated reporting, issue-oriented editorial, and political speech commentators or blogs.
President Jimmy Carter's address to dailyKos.com subscribers highlighted the isolation of a vital segment of our electorate and the strategic importance of rural fincancing and Congressional caucus direction on build out communications infrastructure that facilitates a universal franchise.
[Knowing Kerry lost] overwhelmingly among farmers, ranchers, and citizens of small town, Jack's background makes him quite compatible with these voters.
The banality of need is something altogether different from color of the law. Civil disobedience in the digital age beckons. For it to arrive, you must imagine we are all in this together and geography need not divide us. Choose to make democracy real.