Big Brother takes grip on America

[bobthedrummer]

The US response to 9/11 has been an unprecedented clampdown on the rights of its own citizens.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1037090,00.html

How's it by you?

[xray s]

1. Oh...no one gives a hoot about their rights around here...

..but charge them $1.80 for a gallon of gas, that gets them all riled up!

[bobthedrummer]

3. I don't know, there are many surveillance cameras all over the place

someone can findout what you buy everywhere, there is the issue of books and publications you read, anyone can make an accusation and you won't be informed of who or why...and that's in Green Bay, Wisconsin folks, law enforcement has gone ga-ga with the non-lethal tech too and recently put on a demonstration just before the start of school about how to take down an armed student in a local middle school. Maybe the one that doesn't want to take Ritalin!

Non-lethals, there's a growth industry for ya.
http://www.datafilter.com/mc/nonlethalWeapons.html

[Guaranteed]

8. How bout the one...

...that IS taking Ritalin?
He's prolly got better aim. Haha.

[delete_bush]

9. There was a show on TV

the other night about this. The whole house was filled with cameras.

Ta-dah!

Well anyway, might be a precursor of things to come. Wire everything for audio/video and promise the people a random shot at reality TV fame for the small price of a little lost freedom. Sure to be a lot of takers.

[Nottingham]

2. I totally agree! We can't Protest without permits

We are searched all our records and everybody is Identified except the Terrorists

:bounce:

[bobthedrummer]

4. It is from Lord High Executioner and Witchfinder Ashcroft's DoJ

Truth serums and torture from the US Atty. General!
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/060402a.html

[bobthedrummer]

5. Potential terrorist or terrorist supporters

that is the broadest of brushes-whoever is politically active is on a list that grows everyday using that brush IMHO and life-experiences over the past 39 years.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. How does that stupid baseball park background music song go

"Im Proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free"

(& I lock & load my shotgun and drive an SUV)

[bobthedrummer]

7. Congress has designated 2003 The Year of The Blues

anyway.

[ArkansasAngie]

10. Interesting counter

Democrats are always being accused on wanting big brother and yet when you get right down to it it is the republicans who want to control control control.

[ablbodyed]

11. Whimmies

WHM's White heterosexual males: Forgive me for offending the few of you with any brains out there, but my experience is that the Whimmies are the biggest bunch of twits, but dangerous twits: mostly ignorent (and proud of it) little bullies, BUT WITH GUNS. I live in the northeast and these people are small-minded bigots, who if they ever had an original thought in their lives were so terrified by the novelty of it that they vowed to never make THAT mistake again. And you know what, it's about the ONLY promise that they keep

[bobthedrummer]

12. Quite right, it's their far right sight!

BTW, welcome to DU,
ArkansasAngie:hi:

[bobthedrummer]

13. What possible right does John Poindexter have to bio-metrically

monitor and data-mine US?
To make US safer???

http://www.darpa.mil/iao/TIASystems.htm

Or to institutionalize Big Brother?
http://opengov.media.mit.edu/GIA/TIA.html

[kayell]

14. Ironically, I'm just rereading the book

It is absolutely amazing how closely the bushites appear to be following it - useing 1984 as an instruction manual rather than as a cautionary tale.