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were not sufficiently interested in public
* events to notice what was happening.
[
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 last word on the subject was a
plea to his readers: "Don't let it happen. It depends on you."
]
*
* The National Security Agency's Project L.U.C.I.D., with all its
* technological wizardry, is a future, planetary dictator's dream---and a
* Christian and national patriot's nightmare. Someday, the Holy Bible
* prophesies, that planetary dictator will emerge on the scene, lusting
* for blood...
*
* There can be no doubt about it.
*
* The REAL Chief Executive Officer of the NSA is not a human being.
*
* The CEO MUST be Lucifer himself.

Amen.


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It is technology driving the capabilities, it is our government using
them ruthlessly: without letting us vote on it.

Never before could someone walk up to you and number you by scanning
your fingerprints. A number