In 1988 I was in France working with NATO on fighter aircraft tactics. The best F-16 pilots from all over Europe were there...except the Soviet Union. Every evening, after work, we would all go out to some nearby, tiny, French town and party, we were all comrades not people from different nations. The only group that didn't join in with us in the partying were the guys from Germany. The next year we did the same drill and this time, in 1989, the Germans joined the partying and I toasted one evening (we did a lot of that) that maybe next year the Soviets would join us. There was an electric feeling in Europe at that time and I could feel something happening but didn't know what. President Ronald Reagan knew what it was, he had predicted it two years earlier, at the Berlin Wall, when he said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
A short few months later in November 1989 the Berlin wall began to crumble. Tears come to my eyes right now as I recall the feelings that I had when the wall came down. This was a few years before the Internet and this was the culmination of several other changes that were sweeping through the Eastern Bloc of the Soviet Union. This happed slowly but steadily, but it changed Eastern and Central Europe forever and for the better.
In the early 90s I first got onto the Internet, before it had pictures and color, before there was a "Web", just white text on a black screen. I predicted at the time that this would change the world politically because no longer could a despot hide behind his borders. The word would spread by the Internet across "Berlin Walls", across all borders, into prisons, everywhere, at the speed of light.
In the past few weeks, Tunisia and Egypt have overthrown their leaders and are moving toward Freedom. This time as the wave of freedom is spreading through the Arab world, it is spreading like a wild fire. This is much faster than the freeing of the Eastern Bloc. The big difference is the Internet.
As I predicted almost 20 years ago the world is changing and it will never be the same again. There will be more changes as more dictatorships fall. Most will find freedom. Some will fall into a worse situation than they were running from. Some pundits, now have doubts about the future of Arabian world, but in the end, the Internet will have a legacy of Freedom as long as there is someone, somewhere, that can keep it open for communications as several freedom fighters did during the Egyptian uprising. And as long as we can keep supposed "democratic" leaders from legislating an "Internet Kill Switch" as Mr Obama is currently trying to do, we will be free all over the world.
Everyone can be a freedom fighter this time. Just contact every legislator that you know and make sure that they vote against the "Internet Kill Switch" for Mr Obama. Make sure they vote for Freedom for the entire world.
Jim Isbell
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