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Posted by unas on December 13, 2007, 6:12 pm
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Governor Pete Wilson has actively stumped for a National I.D.
* Card system, using the straw man of California's pervasive immigration
* problem. California Senators Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer support
* it too. The latest proposal is to mandate I.D. cards for all school
* children under the Goals 2000 national education program. Another plan
* by the U.S. Labor Department would have required it for all users of a
* National Job Training and Employment database.
*
* George Orwell, in 1984, his classic novel of Big Brother and a coming
* totalitarian state, observed that very few people are awake and alert
* to the machinations and manipulations of the controllers. Thus, the
* people, as a whole, fall victim to a colossal conspiracy out of ignorance
* and because of apathy and denial of reality:
*
* The people could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of
* reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was
* demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public
* events to notice what was happening.
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By Walter Cronkite: "Orwell's '1984'---Nearing?", NYT, June 5 1983
In our world, where a Vietnam village can be destroyed so it can be
saved; where the President names the latest thing in nuclear missiles
"Peacekeeper"---in such a world, can the Orwellian vision be very far
away?
Big Brother's ears have plugs in them right now (or they are, by law,
supposed to), at least on the domestic telephone and cable traffic.
But the National Security Agency's ability to monitor microwave
transmissions, to scoop out of the air VAST numbers of communications,
including telephone conversations, store them in computers, play them
back later, has a truly frightening potential for abuse.
George Orwell issued a warning.
He told us that freedom is too much taken for granted, that it needs to
be carefully watched and protected. His
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