I believe that America has a lot of growing to do. The government ... ah heck I'm not even going to going to get into that here... A good portion of the people of the United States have to learn to accept and love instead of fear and loath(sorry Hunter S. Thompson).

wakeup... the world is not out to get you. and I am talking about you the Americans reading this. Sure some extremest want to attack "America" but do you really believe any of these aggressors specifically hate and want to kill you? I don't think so. Unless of course your name is Bush. ..ah but alas I said I was going to say away from that.. so I will.

I happen to talk to American's all the time.. for the most they are just regular people as far as I can tell but more then there should seem to think aggression solves problems. At the risk of sounding like a parent here.. I think America has been watching to much television. I have to ask... if you are an American(or any other nationality for that matter) have you ever made someone feel attacked, stupid or inferior to get your point across? If so what is the point? I know when someone does this to me I loose respect for them. If you want to get your point across it's easy ... think then speak ... I hope you get my point.

as for the topic at hand which I seemed to have strayed from somewhat...

"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinized." - George Orwell's "1984"

online-literature . com / orwell / 1984 /

George knew the nature of humans in power positions. I mean come on we are still just humans. Let's stop being separation and untrusting ways, let embrace and get to know eachother on a friends bases. Not by peeking into each others windows.

That my two cents anyway.

...and now for some more scary stuff from (spy . org . uk / 1984 . htm)...

"N.B. Todays CCTV cameras use infrared technology and can see in the dark and can zoom in beyond normal human visual range, and no longer need a wired infrastructure, but can work over mobile phone networks. The video and audio signals can be processed electronically to automatically attempt to pick out your face from a database of suspects. There is even research ongoing into classifying "suspicious" behavior automatically from video images. Such CCTV systems have already been linked to automatically fire military weapons systems.

This imperfect technology, fraught with false positive matches, is being rapidly deployed in the civilian world, without any enforceable, consistent rules or means of appeal to correct the inevitable persecution of the innocent.

Can we trust future politicians not to abuse such mass surveillance infrastructures to crush us under a repressive dictatorship ?

Please make sure that any mass surveillance infrastructures which you intend to construct, or allow to be set up on your behalf, have adequate consultation with the public in general (not just "stakeholder" quangos) and that there are technical and legal safeguards, with criminal penalties for those who use these systems to abuse our fundamental human right of privacy. "

peace,love and freedom to ya!

William (not afraid to say my name) Ballum

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