Writer, Veteran, Mason, Futurist, and former Intelligence Analyst
AK Llyr a brief BIO:
Born an Army brat and early to college, Llyr joined the Navy on his 17th birthday. A Navy veteran, Freemason, writer, futurist, and engineer, AK left military and government service in 1998, following his personal experiences with the Iran-Contra investigation and the influence of corporate power and money in politics.
A traveler of all seven continents, AK continued in security and IT as a government and Fortune 100 consultant, later becoming a founding partner in a technology, security, and managed services firm.
His decades of experience in military, government, and civilian service as an analyst and field operations specialist, including threat analysis and assessment, telecommunications, electronics, network infrastructure, predictive modeling, and surveillance, have given him a rare, if not unique, understanding of the challenges and global threats to democracy, freedom, and personal privacy that we face today, whether those threats come from foreign or domestic, state or corporate actors.
AK holds degrees in Engineering, Computer Science, and Business, with additional college credits in physics, political science, and philosophy. He has also gained skills and competencies through military and civilian training and experience in desert, arctic, and jungle survival, modern history, scuba, skydiving, close-quarters battle (CQB), close-quarters combat (CQC), and threat modeling, construction, gardening, heavy equipment handling and commercial driving.
In retirement, AK repairs linear accelerators and spends his spare time writing, speaking, and vlogging on security, privacy, social justice, and the state of science in “science fiction.”
He also walks dogs.
My Personal Mission
To champion, defend and pursue the ideals put forth in the Preamble to the American Constitution. "In Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..." For all of humanity and sentient beings everywhere.
Those who wrote, signed and swore oaths to the American Constitution did not have the hubris and the egos that afflict our modern leaders, or they were wise enough to know they did and set those vices aside that they might strive to be more than they were.
They knew they were not perfect, and that they had a long way to go. It was with that humility that they made the American Constitution a living document to not only define the base level of ethics and morality that should be adhered to, but to clearly state they knew it was a work in progress.
As a follow-up to the Constitution, they included the Bill of Rights, and each and every amendment to the Constitution is the embodiment of the promise made to continue to strive "...to form a more perfect Union,..."
As the Preamble, it is meant to be the foundation upon which all else that follows is predicated. By itself it does not establish any specific law or governmental power, but rather sets the philosophical framework for everything that follows. It is a sad reflection on the state of our nation today that our leaders on both the far left and the far right do not heed it as the beacon of light and hope, as well as a warning to future generations for which it was intended.