Entanglements Embracing All. For Friend Thad Poem by ivor or ivor.e hogg

Entanglements Embracing All. For Friend Thad



Website by website all ready
to defend access to the net.
Against all government’s already
trying to exert control, upset.

by their own inability
To keep up with the latest trends.
We threaten their stability
and use the net for our own ends.

To spread the truth, reveal the lies.
Which are told all too frequently.
By those in charge who cannot see
beyond their wish for secrecy

The internet will set us free.
Beyond control of government
which they admit reluctantly.
The internet defies their intent.

To impose their will on us
Some one will always whistle blow
to satisfy the curious
And tell us what we want to know.

The internet’s above the law.
Untamed and wild not always true
But it is better than before.
it can do as it wants to do.

Exchanging information
freely. As people ought to do.
Shared between every nation.
A concept which is not new.

Banned in the past by governments
who guarded secrets jealously.
Who penalised the discontents
They could not take seriously.

Knowledge is power so they thought.
They gloried in their secrecy.
All their attempts avail them naught.
the net erodes security.

The internet may prove to be
the greatest invention of mankind.
It will enforce transparency
on governments of every kind.

And lead to true democracy.
The present system was absurd.
Led to elected tyranny
The people’s wishes were not heard.

I am prepared to wait and see
If my assessment proves correct.
The speed of new technology
I have good reason to expect

Will change the world drastically.
Am I a hopeless optimist?
I think perhaps that I may be
but no one loves a pessimist

24/10/2009
http: // blog.my space.com/poeticpiers

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