Surely.. most possessed of an IQ > waist size
have deemed this as inevitable as - the now implementation via technological advance, of most facets of 1984/BNWorld etc. Is it really news that, there always exists a group whose major aim is the control of difference via an Authority possessing the power to implement that control?
Who would have imagined - before the Convenient Shock of 9/11 (so now like the Endless War With Oceania?) the overt subversion of basic Constitutional protections of citizens from government - already a fait accompli, in a mere FIFTEEN MONTHS!
Surely.. given the technical complexity and the dumbth of the avge non-voter (and of the Corp-representatives who no longer represent him/her) -- it is today 12/21/02 a crap-shoot about How Soon comes an all- Ashcroft/DOJ/Microsoft hegemony over most-all 'communications' techno. I presume that only cost priorities (of enforced change to 'all secure' hardware and comfort.nyet) is determining the schedule.
(Unless of course the unthinkable occurs: consumers return to citizenship and Throw This Cabal Out !?) But then.. the pre-War current state appears today to be embraced by a majority.
Does anyone imagine that more than a handful of Muricans either knows or cares about this topic? :(
Ashton
When the rich assemble to concern themselves with the business of the poor, it is called Charity. When the poor assemble to concern themselves with the business of the rich, it is called Anarchy.
-Paul Richards