Toews against the Machine...

Okay, dear friends and frenemies....
Those of you outside of Soviet Canuckistan have probably not heard a single thing about one of our very dear Conservative MPs and the plans he has for our Internet.  Vic Toews, MP for Cloud-Cukooland, is the very fine Minister of Public Safety who has suggested a law that would give the police more power to search our searches online.  When his plan was criticized by privacy advocates, the general public and anyone who wants the government to mind its own business, Toews suggested that anyone who opposed his plans was supporting child pornographers (a logic statement that I am not going to pursue here; fill in your own blank).

Yes, I am shocked without the necessary awe.  I expected that when this government finally got their sticky paws on the levers of power, something like this would happen.  I have just read that Toews is going to back down from his plans, but I would like to encourage those of us who are not that forgetful to harrass him out of any position of power (guess I am going to be interrogated and numbered for that one).

Look folks: the Internet really is the Wild West, and it should remain that way.  I write this and other pieces online without any expectation that I going to keep things private.  And I am fine with that.  I think that you should be too and let any so-called authority out there know that we are all big boys and girls - well, most of us are - and we are just fine with the big ole world of the World Wide Web.

Oh, I am not alone with these ideas.  Read this out.