[Promotum] RedPill-Big Brother is in the house

[Edmund A. Hintz]

     I'd like to extend a warm welcome to Big Brother... That's right, 
ladies and gentlemen, our newest house guest, none other than Big Brother 
himself! A round of applause, please!

     Again, I marvel at how the sheeple can be convinced that to protect 
our freedom we must take it away. First, an article at Wired which 
discuses some of the more obnoxious new provisions of the patriot 
act-which don't expire after the 4 year period. My personal favorites are 
the ability of law enforcement agencies to search your residence telling 
you they did so (KGB, anyone, KGB?), and the ability to track all of your 
web and mail traffic without a warrant. Ain't that just loverly? Anybody 
else reminded of the good old days of J Edgar Hoover and McCarthyism? 
Squared?

http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47901,00.html

     Here's one about a poor shmuck of a reporter caught in the 
crossfire. Just imagine what happens when your disgruntled coworker makes 
an anonymous tip to the FBI that you're a terrorist. Just like being 
branded a communist 50 years ago, all your rights go out the window, and 
you didn't do a damn thing wrong.

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2001-10-25/cover.asp

     Folks, from where I sit, it sure looks like Bin Laden won.



Peace,

Edmund A. Hintz              **|**     "You may say I'm a dreamer,
Mac Techie, Unix Geek,      *  |  *      But I'm not the only one...
Mac/Unix Consultant        *  /|\  *     I hope someday you'll join us,
<ed@hintz.org>              */ | \*      And the world will live as one.
'78 Westy                    *****      Imagine."
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