NP? Big Brother is No Longer a Fiction, ACLU Warns

[Richard Romeo]

peter lewis may be a strange guy (his take on denying
funds to all of Cleveland's charities because of his
rift with Case Western's board is really
inexcusable)but his $8 million donation to the ACLU
couldn't come at a better time.

Ashcroft has been keeping a low profile lately which
is probably even more worriesome

rich


--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=11612&c=130
> 
> [...] “Many people still do not grasp that Big
> Brother
> surveillance is no longer the stuff of books and
> movies,” said Barry Steinhardt, Director of the
> ACLU’s
> Technology and Liberty Program and a co-author of
> the
> report. “Given the capabilities of today’s
> technology,
> the only thing protecting us from a full-fledged
> surveillance society are the legal and political
> institutions we have inherited as Americans,” he
> added. “Unfortunately, the September 11 attacks have
> led some to embrace the fallacy that weakening the
> Constitution will strengthen America.” [...] 
> 
> 
> See also _Vineland_ and Pynchon's introduction to
> _Stone Junction_. 
> 
> -Doug
> 
> 
> =====
> <http://www.pynchonoid.blogspot.com/>
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