October 27th, 2006

Is "Financial Freedom" the Freedom to Rob Banks?

Posted in  Intellectual Property  Technology 
Author: Tom Giovanetti || Location: Lewisville, Texas, USA

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has announced the new Digital Freedom Campaign.

Now, who could possibly be opposed to so such a warm, fuzzy thing like "digital freedom"?

But digital freedom shouldn't mean the right to steal digital content, any more than "financial freedom" doesn't mean the right to steal money.

Hi, I'm Phil (or Heather, or Tyrone), and I'm inviting you to join the "Financial Freedom Campaign". I'm hoping you'll join me in fighting for our financial freedom.

All we want is the freedom to have access to the main thing everyone needs--money. Everybody needs money, right? What could possibly be wrong with nice people like us having a little more money? But our freedom to access the money we want will be taken away if the Big Banks are able to use government laws and regulations to get their way.

Your financial freedom is at risk, if the Big Banks and Government and Law and bad stuff like that gets its way.

See, all I want to do is be able to walk into a bank and take out all the money I need. But "the man" won't let me. The "man" guards the money with locks, and safes, and armed thug guards. Bad stuff like that.

I'm just a young poor student. I need a big bunch of money. I know you can sympathize with me, since you're probably young and poor, too.

Or maybe I'm a real attractive young woman with a paper bag over my head.

OR, perhaps I'm an African-American man with a rope tied around my hands, designed to evoke uncomfortable historical images of slavery and bondage.

Sympathetic characters like us (and like you) just want the freedom to get the money we want, but those evil Big Banks won't let us have our financial freedom. They've tied our hands, put tape over our mouths, and put bags over our heads in order to keep us from being able to have all the money we're entitled to.

New technologies today make it easier than ever to find creative ways to access the money we need. But The Man and Big Banks are standing in our way of using this exciting new technology, passing laws and regulations designed to restrict our ability to hack into banks and financial services companies. They're even passing laws making it harder than ever for sympathetic people like you and me to just be able to get the money we want without fear of prosecution. Can you believe that people are in jail, right now, just for taking money out of a bank? Unbelievable!

The right to use new technologies to access the money we need is a basic freedom that must be protected. The Financial Freedom Campaign is dedicated to defending the rights of consumers to use new technology free of unreasonable restrictions and without fear of costly lawsuits or really, really not fun imprisonment.

Won't you please join us now? Don't you care about your Financial Freedom? Join the Financial Freedom Campaign, and stand up for your rights to access all the money you want. Don't let the Big Banks and hundreds of years of established property rights law and sound economics get in your way. Join the Financial Freedom Campaign today!