This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.Benjamin Franklin
Algeria Shuts down Internet in Response to Growing Protest:
What is happening on the other side of the world? The Algerian government has shut down the Internet and deleted Facebook accounts across the country in response to growing protests in the streets. Read more here: Telegraph.co.uk
Is this good? Either a new world order in which citizens who are organizing and unifying are rising in order to create functioning democracies, or these nations where order and functionality were scare already, are about to be thrown into a whirlwind of chaos and disorder while they scramble to formulate new ruling bodies.
It is undoubtably admirable to watch nations like Egypt overthrow decrepit rulers and hope true democracy will form in the light of a setting national order, but this is far too simplistic to be realistic. Democracy does not just happen. I had the chance to briefly discuss this issue with a new friend this weekend who explained his reasoning for thinking dark days were on the horizon. He believed that since the stabilizing (although corrupt) governing body was overthrown, what is going to seize control is unlikely to be anything resembling what was envisioned and what little order existed in these societies is going to evaporate in the void of "the in-between." In between Mubarak and whatever comes next.
The real question is; what exactly happens now?
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