Edg: you might enjoy reading "The Traveler" by John Twelve Hawks or the "Rain"
series by
Barry Eisler. A used bookstore in the Peoples Republic Of Madison should have
them. You
will be looking over you shoulder more. <grin>
--- In [email protected], Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This whole surveillance thing has pretty much happened in the last ten
> years. But in the last year, I have just gotten sick about it and had
> to divert my mind to something else. It has become a symbol that
> triggers many of my paranoias -- the interment camps being built all
> around America, for instance.
>
> Right now, I'm having trouble even thinking about flying anywhere,
> because just the other day they found a SPECK of marijuana on some
> guy's heel and he's jailed for something that he could have picked up
> while walking into the airport, and now they're making it clear that
> if you bring a laptop they can make you show them every file on it
> which means they can grab your cell phone too and take down a list of
> all the folks you talk to.
>
> To me it smacks of the Illuminati creating such "Big Brother Is
> Looking" fears that they keep everyone "at home" and afraid to talk to
> anyone about anything. As I've said here several times: who in
> today's world would use certain terrorist buzz-words in emails or
> online postings without some trepidation that the government listeners
> would pick up on it and suddenly there's a knock on the door and your
> whole house is ransacked for terrorist-clues?
>
> It is simply and obviously a stifling of free speech and of the right
> to assemble and of the right to privacy. Well, one thing's certain,
> the masses are asses and if they ever get fed up with this deal, then
> I expect that all the public cameras will be vandalized by those types
> who are presently content to write their names with spray paint on
> subway cars. The populous can only take so much, ya know?
>
> But when does that happen? I'm thinking we have a lot more tamping
> down of the masses before any sort of backlash happens. If only
> BushCo had re-instituted the draft -- that would have gotten the youth
> up in arms about being forced to be killers of babies for oil. But
> nope, the powers have figured that "slow but steady erosion of rights"
> will do the trick to keep the crowds from forming.
>
> Which brings me to Obama and the huge crowds he's gathering. No other
> threat to GlobalBiz can match the fires he's seemingly setting in the
> group consciousness, and every time I catch one of his commercials,
> all I see is a very very "dangerous" man with tons of raw power to
> change things overnight. GlobalBiz is doing the slow erosion thingie,
> and here's this hippy getting everyone believing that they have RIGHTS
> again, and that Obama is like Christ Returned At Last to right the
> wrongs of all our leaders since First Bush.
>
> The thing about group consciousness is that when a "mob" gets a
> notion, it is then out of the hands of the person who put the notion
> into the crowd. Obama might be inspiring folks to think they'll get
> such big fast changes that when he takes office he will simply be
> unable to fulfill their expectations and he'll look like a foot
> dragging, glad handing, back stabbing, colluder with GlobalBiz.
>
> But who am I kidding? It won't go that far. Obama's too powerful
> right now, and I truly fear for his life. What's another
> assassination to GlobalBiz? Some headlines, some conspiracy theories,
> and the usual work of disinformation, lost film, pooh-poohings and
> there you have it: dead guy, crowds dispersed, and no one on trial
> except some boob they set up to pull the trigger.
>
> A Parallax View for sure. Where's Warren Beatty when you need him?
> Oh, wait, he died at the end of that film.
>
> Edg
