On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Stewart Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Our concepts of privacy are all an illusion. That certainly is the case today, much more so than in the past. Of that, I am sure. And tomorrow we will all have fewer rights to privacy, and the day after that and the day after that. I just saw Joe Lieberman, the senator, talking about some additional security measures soon to be implemented in our useless war on "terror." He said that we all need to give up just a bit more of our privacy to achieve this end. Well, every single time some new scheme is hatched in this war that is being waged against a state of mind, we are told that a little bit more of our freedoms must be surrendered. How long will it take before, bit by bit, nibble by nibble, all of our freedoms and rights of privacy are gone? > People have known about us for years, it was just kept to each other, or > gossiped around town. > > Now with computers, they just have hard copy of it, and are able to > distribute it in a more efficient pattern. Who is this "they" that you refer to? It is not I, and it is not you, I don't think. It is primarily business and government. You and I, I presume, do not go about collecting and collating data on persons and their movements and habits. You and I perhaps know some of those facts about folks that we personally know, but we, I presume, do not know that sort of information about hordes of folks that we do not know and have probably never seen and never will. > So lets give up on this illusion of privacy. There has never really been > privacy. It was just an illusion and a bad one at that. I'll not argue that there was ever full privacy, but there certainly was more of it than exists today, and there will be less of it tomorrow...guaranteed. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
