NP Nixon, 1984, Bush etc.

[pynchonoid]

"What?
--Richard M. Nixon "  (GR 617)

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/112902a.html

"George W. Bush is fast building a political system of
secrecy and snooping that Richard Milhous Nixon would
have died for. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Bush
has asserted broad powers to wiretap, spy on and
imprison indefinitely people he deems a threat to
national security – authority far beyond what was
available to the famously paranoid Nixon. [...] The
technological blueprint for an Orwellian-style
“thought police” is already on the drawing board at
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the
Pentagon’s top research and development arm. DARPA has
commissioned a comprehensive plan for electronic
spying that would track everyone in the world who is
part of the modern economy.

“Transactional data” will be gleaned from electronic
data on every kind of activity – “financial,
education, travel, medical, veterinary, country entry,
place/event entry, transportation, housing, critical
resources, government, communications,” according to
the Web site for DARPA’s Information Awareness Office.
The program will then cross-reference this data with
the “biometric signatures of humans,” data collected
on individuals’ faces, fingerprints, gaits and irises.
The project seeks what it calls “total information
awareness.”

Masonic Eye

The Information Awareness Office even boasts a logo
that looks like some kind of clip art from George
Orwell’s 1984. The logo shows the Masonic symbol of an
all-seeing eye atop a pyramid peering over the globe,
with the slogan, “scientia est potentia,” Latin for
“knowledge is power.”

Though apparently unintentional, DARPA's choice of a
giant white pyramid eerily recalls Orwell's Ministry
of Truth, "an enormous pyramidal structure of
glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after
terrace, 300 metres into the air." The all-seeing
Masonic eye could be read as "Big Brother Is
Watching."

Former Vice President Al Gore and others have noted
these strange similarities both in style and substance
with Orwell's totalitarian world. "We have always held
out the shibboleth of Big Brother as a nightmare
vision of the future that we're going to avoid at all
costs," Gore said. "They have now taken the most
fateful step in the direction of that Big Brother
nightmare that any president has ever allowed to
occur." [Times/UK, Nov. 22, 2002]   [...] "





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