The Electronic Police State - National Rankings

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The Electronic Police State - 2008 National Rankings

"Most of us are aware that our governments monitor nearly every form of electronic communication. We are also aware of private companies doing the same. This strikes most of us as slightly troubling, but very few of us say or do much about it. There are two primary reasons for this:1. We really don't see how it is going to hurt us. Mass surveillance is certainly a new, odd, and perhaps an ominous thing, but we just don't see a complete picture or a smoking gun.2. We are constantly surrounded with messages that say, "Only crazy people complain about the government."However, the biggest obstacle to our understanding is this: The usual image of a "police state" includes secret police dragging people out of their homes at night, with scenes out of Nazi Germany or Stalin's USSR. The problem with these images is that they are horribly outdated. That's how things worked during your grandfather's war

[Mik]

Government Gone Mad in a Total Surveillance Societyhttp://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12325"Big Brother is watching you." Last night I finished reading George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. We are not there yet, but the pieces are fallng into place.