Foreword to _1984_ "surveillance of ordinary citizens"

[Jumbly Girl]

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> [...] the camera, a development that promises social
> control on a scale those quaint old 20th-century
> tyrants with their goofy moustaches could only dream
> about.[...]

For a lot of people in the world the first telephone call they make in
their lives will be with a cell-phone or satellite phone. The first time
they see TV will be on a plasma screen via satellite. The stuff is
getting cheaper and cheaper. Consider the Indians that live in trees in
the forests of Brazil who watch the price of gold futures on a plasma TV
via satellite. Anyone can make a movie anyplace in the world. 

When I walk into my neighborhood stores I can see myself on TV. My gym
has cameras everywhere. So do all the nightclubs. Even the after hours
clubs have them. When the cops show up at an after hours dance club they
can't go around kicking people. Remember Rodney King? Little Brother is
watching Big Brother's foot soldiers too. The cops can put your VIN #
into a computer and check you out.  You can put their badge number into
yours and check them out. If a convicted child rapist moves from Texas
to NY his record moves with him. In countries like Brazil you can murder
in one state and go to another and no one will be the wiser. They are
fingerprinting their citizens. 1984? Police State? Fascism? Social
Control? Intel lost a big cae in California the other day against a
former employee who sent e-mails critical of the company to the
employees. It's not as simple as black and white TV. 

It's not as simple as a fully robotics Toyota plant (Lexus) and a
traditional farmer (Olive Tree). But TF is good introduction. He only
skips flat stones across the surface. And the waters are very deep.
Example, he swimming in a pool when hears about India's violation of the
test ban treaty. It's about  WMD,  right? Wrong. It's about BONDS. Well,
yes and no. It depends on who is looking at it and why. Gulf War II,
from my perspective, was about Debt. It's about the Paris deal and
Iraq's debt. For some many people in Iraq, water is far more important
than oil. So on. 

Friedman argued that Bush and Blair were not being honest. He was right.
He argued that the real reason they went to war could be justified. He
supported the war but not the for the same reasons that others did or
for the reasons the governments gave to the people.