blacksmithn wrote:I suggest that listening to everyone's phone calls would be a great way to start...
Oops, looks like that's already covered!
Yes, and the photografic cameras are a
growing presence.
Note that theses methods of surveillance
can be justified by non-threatening explanations
which are
POPULAR, for instance,
we all know that running red lites cause unnecessary traffic collisions,
resulting in personal injuries, loss of life and property damages,
so
EMBRACE the cameras.
We don 't want the Moslems blowing up more places,
so
EMBRACE more fone tapping.
An acquaintance of mine was an undertaker,
who informed me that he found a disproportionate number
of his new customers, fallen into their toilets,
locked in their bathrooms,
so for emergency purposes
EMBRACE cameras in everyone 's bathrooms.
Sometimes burglars break into people 's bedrooms at nite,
so
EMBRACE cameras there too.
Let us take note of the fact
that improvements of technology have enabled means of
microsurveillance to advance by leaps n bounds.
We don 't want child abuse,
so
EMBRACE secret cameras on babysitters.
How about dishonest accountants ?
EMBRACE cameras on them too, as thay work.
The net result
is that government will know (
progressively more n more )
where everyone is and what he is doing.
History has shown that it is the human nature of politicians
to craft and sculpt whichever society thay are in,
by chipping away the personal freedom of the citizens; seldom in restoring it.
IT WAS TUFF ENUF to throw out the King of England
from America, when he had no knowledge
( or less knowledge )
of what the Revolutionaries were doing.
If a world wide despotism slowly, incrementally, comes upon us,
I doubt that it will be POSSIBLE to overthrow it,
regardless of the degree of anyone personal bravery.
Having an
unarmed, defenseless citizenry
will only make it easier for despotism to have its way, unimpeded.
David