Censorship in Morocco? It Could Happen in the U.S.A.

This is a perfect example of the dangers of State and Government controlled processes. This is why capitalism works - because it keeps the functions of the people within the mercy of the people and the people benefit from those successes or failures.

Otherwise, any alternative venue places the people at the mercy of other Human Beings and therefor judged by their peers regardless of whether any true crime has been committed or not.

In previous blogs I wrote about the intense effort to remove God from the foundation of th United States and the implications of the removal of God from our Nation.

Before you go on thinking I'm trying to push some religious effort - let me just inform you that I am not religious in that I view ALL things as being alive (even rocks) since all elementary particles are alive with motion and therefor energy. God for me is the energy that creates all things.

However, even as a non-religious person, I see the values of having a God-based society. Without God there must be a replacement of Laws. Laws are limited because there is no higher enforcement than one's own moral compass. Laws are counter productive in everyday, general society because it's simply not in the Nature of any living animal to WANT to be caged. You might say - we need laws to avoid chaos and tragedy - no, those are rules. Rules are popular habits and MANY of the "laws" that we have today were simply formed out of popular habit and enacted into law by bored individuals who needed to boost their resume.


It is far more likely that a society will function on a more compatible level if left the responsibility to govern the self, rather than BE governed. Individual accountability is far more powerful than constant nagging about limitations. A free society is far more likely to do kind things for one another because such acts are rewarded upon the do-gooder, thus inspiring more good behavior to achieve the feeling of fulfillment again.

People do good things because they feel good and because they want to.

There should be laws regarding serious crimes and to maintain an overall collective among the people but our Founding Fathers knew that self-governance would develop a true Government among the People ad that's why we have the Constitution - to differentiate the United States from other Countries as a Nation of self-Governed People who own guns as individual nations with a Nation. Now we have HOA's - small, hypocritical groups which represent twisted, uncooperative, court laden bully systems that make little sense when truly examined. We have the U.S. Government trying to forsake the People by making rogue decisions with their own best interests at the helm.

Unless the People step up and defend themselves against this illegal immigration Bill, the U.N., the New World Order and local Government absorption of Rights, we will end up like Morocco not soon into the future.

XOXOXOXOXO

~Samantha







Moroccans Fear Youtube Has Been Blocked

By JOHN THORNEThe Associated Press
Tuesday, May 29, 2007; 6:02 PM

RABAT, Morocco -- Moroccans unable to access the video-sharing Web site YouTube since last week expressed fears Tuesday that the government had stepped up its campaign to restrict independent media.

Moroccan bloggers were surprised to discover they could no longer open YouTube on Friday and promptly launched online forums to speculate about whether the site had been censured.

Najib Omrani, a spokesman for state-controlled Maroc Telecom, which supplies most Internet access in Morocco, blamed the problem on a technical glitch but could not explain its nature or why it affected only the YouTube site.

Government spokesman Nabil Benabdallah said he could not comment on telecommunications issues.

Some Internet users were skeptical that a technical problem was to blame, noting that the site went down after people posted videos critical of Morocco's treatment of the people of Western Sahara, a territory that Morocco took control of in 1975 after Spain, the colonial power, withdrew.

"They've clearly blocked YouTube," said university student Abdelhakim Albarkani, sitting in a Rabat cyber cafe doing his economics homework. "I'm worried because YouTube allowed us to see things the state newspapers and television won't show."

Several countries have blocked access to Youtube this year. The U.S. Defense Department said earlier this month it would begin blocking access "worldwide" to YouTube and other popular Web sites on its computers and networks, citing security concerns and technological limits.

Thailand blocked the site last month because of a video clip deemed offensive to the country's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej. In March, Turkey blocked YouTube for two days after a complaint that some videos insulted Turkey's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

A Brazilian judge ordered a ban on Youtube in an attempt to stop steamy footage of supermodel Daniela Cicarelli from being viewed, but later reversed the decision. And in Australia, the state of Victoria banned the site from government schools.

Internet use has flourished in Morocco since ADSL became available in 2004. Tech-savvy Moroccans have started blogs and Web sites, and the Internet is now the scene of lively debate on many topics off-limits to the country's mainstream media.

Many bloggers say an upsurge of YouTube videos criticizing Morocco's rule in Western Sahara may have spooked government censors.

A report this month by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists listed Morocco as one of 10 worst backsliders on press freedoms.

In recent years, journalists have been sentenced to prison, heavily fined and sometimes driven into exile for broaching Western Sahara and other subjects.

Moroccan telecommunications authorities have also blocked access to online mapping tool Google Earth for much of 2006 and sites promoting independence for Western Sahara.

"The government should not interfere in free media," said Hicham, a member of a pro-democracy NGO who only gave his first name. "If Morocco is to be a practicing democracy, this sort of thing shouldn't happen."

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Associated Press Writer Marco Oved in Paris contributed to this report.