Surveillance In America [View All]

[ThomWV]

Not so very long ago the madman who led a large nation became intent on destroying his internal enemies, all of them. He killed millions He was not the first of his kind. The man I am thinking of was Stalin. Using criteria of his own making Stalin singled out and murdered millions of his countrymen and women.

Were these times those you would have done enough by reading this page to have earned execution. Were then now you would have left a trail right to your door if you posted a response. Consider what can easily be found out about you. The state of your health, mental and physical, as well as a list any behavior changing drugs you might have had prescribed - now or ever. Your financial life, past and present, with assessments and ratings by professionals. Every legal dealing you have ever had, every tax you have ever paid, all the bills and receipts of your life in electronic form can be, and are, combed daily by Agencies of Government who's names are disguised by acronyms you have never heard. School transcripts and the list of organizations you have belonged to over the years tell a story too. You have been photographed more in the last 48 hours than your grandfather was in his entire life. Cameras watched you at every traffic signal, the GPS in your cell phone tracked you across the face of the earth and your "On-Star" listened in on every word you said. The NSA captured every digital bit of it, zero, by one, by zero. All reports have it that the NSA's ability to sort information is astounding, Senators have quaked when informed.

You know, this really does have to stop.

Maybe its time we had a good public discussion on the individual's right to privacy. What do you think?