Jesh Foundation

Before leaving home, you check for emails, see what’s cooking on Twitter and open Facebook to find out if any friends invited you to an event or posted a comment on your wall. On your way for a Starbuck’s you get two cell calls and a text message comes through while waiting in line to pick up your latte. This is typical in today’s expanding social networking world that keeps us informed about people we may hardly know and falls short in delivering the joy experienced when human beings get together face-to-face.

As a pre-boomer growing up in a big city, there was still a small town closeness in the neighborhood where I lived. People knew each other on my block, the surrounding streets and along the shopping area not far away. True, most of these folks were only acquaintances. These were children from school, their parents, folks from church and people you kind of knew because they lived in the same house for years. This gave me a feeling of belonging as well as safety, although I didn’t really think about it at the time.

What people do not understand is the actual reasoning behind why we have the federal government in the first place – it is to pool our resources to protect the American people; from enemies both foreign and domestic. Thus, we need a strong military, and a good security force, that is why we pay our taxes, and that is why we have the federal government, and why all the states joined together in a common cause; which we call the United States of America. A great nation which just happens to be the best country ever created in the history of mankind.

Now then, it should be obvious to anyone who stops long enough to observe that our freedoms and liberties in the United States are being exploited by our enemies, drug dealers, organized crime, even terrorists. “Governments number one job is to protect the American people,” therefore it is assigned the task; however when a government internalizes these duties against its citizenry, makes assumptions that its own citizenry is out to get it, or destroy the nation, that paranoia leads to a clamping down on the very freedoms that we have, and the reason for the government in the first place. And do remember that we own our government.

The other day I was surfing the YouTube videos and came across a number of videos which showed how to make C4 explosives and one which explained how to make PBX and yet, a few more on how to make land mine explosives like RDX. I watched a few and then thought, hey, why is that stuff online in the first place? After all, the videos we far too simple; How To Make Videos. And well, that’s just scary stuff.

Then I thought maybe our intelligence agencies are busy monitoring such sites to see if anyone who is a suspected international terrorist is watching those videos, such as an Al Qaeda member, and by doing so you could get their ISP and location fairly easily. That might be good intelligence – although on the other hand could lead to too many false positives – still, I have a concept?

Why not make fake videos which would cause pre-mature detonation to a lesser degree if someone were to follow those steps, or perhaps videos that would make the compound created useless. In other words, it wouldn’t be more than a fire-cracker and couldn’t hurt a fly? That’s a concept. Meanwhile you could still monitor those who are downloading those videos, or watching them multiple times, while stopping the video during each segment, as one would who is making such an explosive material in real-time.