User:Riskable

About Me
I'm a professional security consultant that has an interest in politics... Especially the ways and means the system is unjustly manipulated. Being a hacker it is in my nature to find the flaws in things and I have a great track record of finding loopholes in systems.

I'm also a poet-philosopher who saves snippets of my own wisdom--can you get any geekier than that? Well, here's some examples:

On government secrets:

"There's a grand difference between government secrets and politician's secrets."

On the two-party system:

"A closed mind cannot open another."

On campaign financing:

"If our leaders are elected by way of gold

It should be expected that they'll be bought and sold"

On zoning laws and the environment:

"Ceaseless construction ensures environmental destruction."

On libertarianism:

"For a market to be fair and just

Regulations are a must"

On creationism:

"I refuse to believe in creationism because when you blame a supreme being for creationists you're giving up on human evolution."

On corrupt politicians:

"If you truly want to "protect our children" from troubling predators

You should focus your attention on well-financed senators"

On religion's influence on politics:

"If you truly believe your religion is without flaw

You will have no desire to make it the law"

On the educational system:

"How would you feel if you were forced to spend six hours every day under an authoritative regime that treats you like a prisoner, force-feeds you "education", punishes you and your colleagues for the most trivial of things, and regularly reminds you that your entire future depends upon the degree to which you keep them pleased?"

On special interests:

"We kicked out the British and formed this country because King George III (a special interest) was taxing Americans (legislating more profit) to fund an unpopular war which did not benefit Americans in any way (negative impact). Current politicians would do well to remember this."

On businesses lobbying (a play on Heinlein):

"It is a truism that almost any business or industry cartel will legislate more profit into law if it acquires the power to do so, and will follow it by attempting to keep influence over the politicians that passed it, attacking those against it, and attempting to improve upon the previous legislation with even more profitable laws."

On ignorance:

"History teaches us that history is not taught very well."

On consumerism and the culture of debt:

"Want is a fish that grows with the size of its habitat."

On our current President:

"POTUS: Politician Obfuscating Truth and Undermining Science"

On Fox News and other defenders of corruption and injustice:

"Apologists have a long, scandalous history of referencing scandals from history to downplay present scandals engendered by apologists that will make history for being scandalous. Then again, this is not a new development."

On willful ignorance and self-delusion:

"There is a big difference between believing in something without evidence and believing in something in spite of evidence. The first is blind faith which is unwise but not necessarily harmful. The second is illness and should be treated as such."

On freedom:

"No person is free until they can tell the truth without retaliation, live without debt, and change their mind without disaffection. This is freedom from religion, freedom from inequity, and freedom from dogma."

On the national debt:

"America has lost it's right to be called the land of the free. As a citizen cannot claim to be free if they have a debt to pay, the American government cannot claim to be free if it is swimming in IOUs. America's freedom is currently on loan."

On oppression:

"Fighting for freedom is an admirable cause. Fighting for the freedom to oppress is not."

On public ambivalence:

"A damn is a gift everyone can afford."

On sky-high presentations:

"Believing that details are unimportant is the mantra of a problem gambler."

On generalized political positions:

"Views from a great distance always miss details."

On inflexible authoritarian documents and laws:

"In the heart of great injustice lies a popular belief and a sacred text backing it up."

On dissent:

"I believe that no belief has a right to be free from criticism. Even this one."

On politicians that ignore the environmental impact of their decisions:

"If you elect leaders that act irresponsibly towards nature, you'll find that irresponsibility is the nature of your leaders."

On complaining about youth:

"One has only to point a finger at the preceding generation to find exactly who is to blame for 'kids these days'."

On the injustice of hiring decisions based on what school you went to:

"An education is what you make of it but college graduates would have you believe that an education is what makes you."

On the pitfalls of government secrets:

"A government that operates in secrecy is a government that operates inefficiently."