As an old police officer, I have experienced George Orwell’s "1984" come of age. I remember an incident in 1970 when an agent had gotten some specifically juicy information on a target. A chill increased my back as he proudly and boldly announced "big sibling is below" as he strutted down a corridor laughing.
Monday, 1 Oct 07
As an old police officer, I have actually experienced George Orwell’s "1984" come of age. When an agent had gotten some especially juicy information on a target, I recall an event in 1970. A chill increased my back as he happily and boldly proclaimed "huge brother is right here" as he strutted down a corridor laughing.
I thought, ’boy individuals simply don’t know’. Truth was, little did any of us know. Many of us did not know when Martin Luther King, Jr was under security for political reasons nor when Brit Hume of Fox Information Channel was being shadowed for political gain.
Big Sibling thinks of us in genuine simple terms as pigs. Let the Tennessee Mountain Man inform you how to catch wild hogs. At first the hogs will stay clear of the area due to the fact that of the human scent and cost-free food.
Now you build a stretch of fence at a 90 degree angle appended to the. Provide the hogs a few days to become acclimated and construct an additional stretch of the fence.
This is done up until there is only a little opening for the pigs to get in and out and they will. On a pre-selected date close the gate and you have a sufficient wild pork, shoulder, bacon, sausage, and pork chops to feed your household and all your pals for some time.
Long prior to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society there were other guys with similar dreams stoking the feed lots, dangerous guys like Mussolini, Marx, Hitler, and Stalin. There are similarly unsafe guys today like Bin Laden and Ahmadinejad running under the guise of fundamentalist religious beliefs . Someone has stated we need to find out from history or we are condemned to duplicate it. So the question becomes have we discovered.
Have we discovered anything when we quietly sustain our own government stripping away our personal rights and civil liberties in the name of national security while the greatest court in the land stands idly by? Have we any personal privacy when Google can photo us virtually at will and declare it is their right to do so? When our cellular phone company understands where we are within a square mile or so right now? When the black box in our car records where our car has been and when and more?
Do you feel secure in your house when your ISP monitors your email and your browsing, and Microsoft clandestinely enters your computer system and does who understands what? When web traffic cameras and even highway toll centers record where you are, when, and exactly what you are doing?
Exactly how about when you go into a lounge, gambling establishment, shopping center, large office or residential building, shop or church and understand you are being monitored by people seeing your every proceed concealed cameras. Those cameras are tape-recording exactly what they see ... you and me. When you walk down the street or choose a walk in the park do you ever consider your every action is being tape-recorded by cameras in police vehicle, mobile phone, and exclusive companies and homes along with the police division where staff keeps track of those cams 24/7/365?
Consider the bad souls who became trapped in the pig pen and forgot how to care for themselves. All too frequently those for life ignorant folk caught in poverty in the public housing tasks skeezing and pleasing skeezers while chasing their next fix know just how to take what they desire at the point of a weapon.
Now that you are adequately paranoid about Big Brother possibly it is time to seriously mirror on what kind of world and nation we wish to live in tomorrow, and exactly how we get there from a land adrift so far away.