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 given the technical complexity and the dumbth of the avge non-voter (and of the Corp-representatives who no longer represent him/her) -- it is today 12/21/02 a crap-shoot about How Soon comes an all- Ashcroft/DOJ/Microsoft hegemony over most-all 'communications' techno.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