Kitchen Wars

The structure of a kitchen can be compared to the government. There are levels of authority, a head chef, sous-chef, and everyone else. The head chef is meant to guide everyone to complete a task at hand, so that the kitchen flows into an nice orderly and efficient line. The head chef must always balance the power of his authority with the conscience of what is best for others. What happens when the head chef takes on more responsibility on how to govern the people of his kitchen? Suddenly, all those under his authority have to wear certain shoes, look at certain way, are only allowed to do certain things. The small innuendo of self expression and speech become more narrow and constricted. Then without realization the governing of this kitchen becomes more monarchical than democratic.


Now with this particular situation it only seems the people being affected are the ones in the kitchen themselves, but what if the Government were to do this to the public. As of now, there is a proposed "Internet Kill Switch" bill by senators Lieberman, Collins, and Carper. This would allow the President complete control over what sections of the internet he would want to shut down. Now the justification of this action is to keep hackers out of our records, in the situation of a system hack. My question is how would that prevent a hacker from accessing the system if you shut it down internally. The outside countries would still have a working internet service. I would assume a threat such as this would come from outside of The United States. Wouldn't a sophisticated firewall still work. What good would it do, to blind the public of any outside knowledge. "Great Firewall"

All this bill seems to be to, is just a easy way around the red tape. This would allow the govt to restrict access to certain things and have a legitimate excuse, but then this goes from the public's well being to stifling freedom of speech and our right to information. Much like the Head chef of a kitchen, if the rest of the bottom feeders don't step up and say something, then the power of the head chef will only grow and spread to aspects that once only belonged to you. Look at history to predict where this is headed, the age of communism.