{"id":44595,"date":"2013-06-24T04:40:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T03:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/apple-cofounder-is-sorry\/44595\/"},"modified":"2013-06-24T04:40:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T03:40:37","slug":"apple-cofounder-is-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/apple-cofounder-is-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple-Cofounder Is Sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, is a person who has truly helped<br \/>\n                to change the world for the better. This brilliant man, in my<br \/>\n                mind, deserves to be placed in the same camp as say Thomas Edison.<br \/>\n                The fruits of his labor have changed life dramatically for the<br \/>\n                good.\n              <\/p>\n<p><span> And Wozniak<br \/>\n                did it the right way, as a private individual working for a private<br \/>\n                company. So you won&#8217;t see his face on the front of the funny money,<br \/>\n                or hanging up in a classroom, or carved into Mount Rushmore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> Yet despite<br \/>\n                Wozniak&#8217;s brilliance, when it comes to understanding the nature<br \/>\n                of The State, he&#8217;s as clueless as a child. Like most Americans,<br \/>\n                his <i>heart<\/i> is in the right place, but his <i>mind<\/i> has<br \/>\n                accepted the government propaganda that has been fed to him his<br \/>\n                entire life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> Wozniak<br \/>\n                was on Piers Morgan&#8217;s show, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/21\/wozniak-guilty-nsa-surveillance-snowden?CMP=twt_fd&amp;CMP=SOCxx2I2\">talking<br \/>\n                about<\/a> his disgust at the U.S. government&#8217;s spying:<br \/><\/span>\n              <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span>&#8220;Read<br \/>\n                the facts: it&#8217;s government of, by and for the people. We own the<br \/>\n                government; we are the ones who pay for it and then we discover<br \/>\n                something that our money is being used for \u2014 that just can&#8217;t<br \/>\n                be, that level of crime.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>              The only truth in that statement is <i><span>&#8220;we<br \/>\n              are the ones who pay for it&#8221;<\/span><\/i>. <\/p>\n<p><span> That&#8217;s it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> The rest<br \/>\n                is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/featherstone\/featherstone61.html\">100%<br \/>\n                incorrect<\/a>.<\/span>\n              <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><br \/>\n                When Morgan suggested the government would not be able to keep<br \/>\n                such a close eye on citizens without the work of innovators like<br \/>\n                him, Wozniak acknowledged: &#8220;I actually feel a little guilty about<br \/>\n                that \u2014 but not totally. We created the computers to free<br \/>\n                the people up, give them instant communication anywhere in the<br \/>\n                world; any thought you had, you could share freely. That it was<br \/>\n                going to overcome a lot of the government restrictions. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span><br \/>\n                We didn&#8217;t realise that in the digital world there were a lot of<br \/>\n                ways to use the digital technology to control us, to snoop on<br \/>\n                us, to make things possible that weren&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>              In my opinion, Wozniak should not feel guilty at all. Tyranny thrives<br \/>\n              when individuals are unable to communicate with one another. The<br \/>\n              tools that have been created are bringing people together like never<br \/>\n              before. Geography no longer prohibits one individual from understanding<br \/>\n              others who may be different. <\/p>\n<p><span> With communication<br \/>\n                tools, people on one side of the earth are able to think outside<br \/>\n                of government&#8217;s propaganda that those on the other side are just<br \/>\n                a bunch of &#8220;gooks&#8221; who need to conquered and remade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> Wozniak<br \/>\n                should sleep with a clear mind. The creation of good should never<br \/>\n                be suppressed for fear of what evil will do with it. The creation<br \/>\n                of good should always flow out of creative minds; for in the end,<br \/>\n                the good will always win out.<\/span>\n              <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span>&#8220;All<br \/>\n                these things about the constitution, that made us so good as people<br \/>\n                \u2014 they are kind of nothing.<\/span><br \/>\n                <span>&#8220;They are<br \/>\n                all dissolved with the Patriot Act. There are all these laws that<br \/>\n                just say &#8216;we can secretly call anything terrorism and do anything<br \/>\n                we want, without the rights of courts to get in and say you are<br \/>\n                doing wrong things&#8217;. There&#8217;s not even a free open court any more.<br \/>\n                Read the constitution. I don&#8217;t know how this stuff happened. It&#8217;s<br \/>\n                so clear what the constitution says.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>              This is one of the most common errors that Americans make. <\/p>\n<p><span> When one<br \/>\n                truly understands <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/library.mises.org\/books\/Murray%20N%20Rothbard\/Anatomy%20of%20the%20State.pdf\">the<br \/>\n                nature of The State<\/a>, he\/she realizes that there&#8217;s no restricting<br \/>\n                it. You can write down some rules, and they may last for awhile.<br \/>\n                But the rules will be as effective as telling a bunch of cancer<br \/>\n                cells that they have to stay put, and are not allowed to spread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> Put a barrier<br \/>\n                in front of a group of men who have a lust for power, and they<br \/>\n                will spend every waking moment thinking of ways to get through<br \/>\n                it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> The evisceration<br \/>\n                of The U.S. Constitution began <i>immediately<\/i> (even though<br \/>\n                it was supposed to chain down The State).\u00a0We are now over<br \/>\n                200 years in, and the last vestiges are being removed; but the<br \/>\n                power hungry went to work right away, before the ink was even<br \/>\n                dry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> In fact,<br \/>\n                <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/7396435\/Conspiracy-in-Philadelphia-Origins-of-the-US-Constitution-by-Dr-Gary-North\">for<br \/>\n                the real history nerds amongst us<\/a>, many of those who created<br \/>\n                the Constitution did so to <i>increase<\/i> their power. While<br \/>\n                there are some good elements in the document (The Bill of Rights),<br \/>\n                the whole ordeal was no doubt a coup against liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> So Wozniak<br \/>\n                rightly hates what the government is doing, but because he doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\n                understand what government <i>is<\/i>, what its nature<i> is, <\/i>he&#8217;ll<br \/>\n                most likely join the multitudes in seeking solutions that are<br \/>\n                equivalent to a dog chasing its tail.<\/span>\n            <\/p>\n<p> <i><span>Reprinted<br \/>\n                with permission from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economicpolicyjournal.com\">Economic<br \/>\n                Policy Journal<\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/lewrockwell.com\/rossini\/rossini16.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Apple-Cofounder Is Sorry\">Lew Rockwell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, is a person who has truly helped to change the world for the better. This brilliant man, in my mind, deserves to be placed in the same camp as say Thomas Edison. The fruits of his labor have changed life dramatically for the good. And Wozniak did it the right way, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}