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FW: Questions that didn't used to be sinister-Orwellian reference s premature?



> Whatever our differences in opinion might be on access to certan types of
> materials at this point in time, its time to pause momentarily and
> appreciate the fact that all of this is happening in the open.  We know
> which material has been temporarily pulled, Bush will be challenged in a
> court of law and in the court of public opinion on the Exec Order.  Hardly
> Orwellian in my opinion.
>
> I think we should also recognize that the threat we face is all too real,
> and it is time to re-examine old dogmas...not trot them out to make
> ourselves feel better.  Re-examining access policies, codes of ethics
> etc... is healthy and reminds us why we have them.
> On the one hand we have the fact that the threat is not that someone's
> privacy is going to be violated, but that people are going to die in
> terrorist attacks.  This is the real thing people! this is not the
> riduculous posturing that we have have come to expect from Right and Left
> on issues of privacy, security etc
> To balance this we have Ben Franklin's old saying "They that can give up
> essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither
> liberty nor safety."
> - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
>
> The USA is an ongoing experiment in freedom.  It is messy, it is working,
> and it is a glorious thing.  Welcome to a democratic republic.
>
> Well, I better finish up now because no doubt the "HAND OF BIG BROTHER" is
> reaching toward me as I type...in the event that i am never heard from
> again..tell my Wife and baby boy that I love them....
>
> Tirade over, have a good weekend folks.
>
> -Tom Heard
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diane C. Russell [SMTP:dcrussell@MAILANDNEWS.COM]
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 7:58 AM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Questions that didn't used to be sinister
>
> Revised version.
>
> Big Brother is Watching You!
>
> Cameras are everywhere.  Just look at the use of WalMart and ATM cameras
> to
> track hijackers.  Can we really trust the government, or educational
> institutions, or corporations, or whomever to not expand the use of those
> cameras, or link them together, in order to track other criminal activity,
> and
> eventually any unpopular or politically incorrect activities?
>
> And think about other themes in Orwell's 1984.
>
> Both the recent Executive Order on presidential records, and the rapidly
> growing movement to restrict access to government records will make it
> much
> easier to first reinterpret what has happened and then just change the
> records
> to match--after all, without public access, the citizentry will only have
> access to whatever is the current government-approved version of history.
>
> If you don't like this picture, what can you do about it?
>
> Probably nothing.  It's too late, and as some folks on this list have
> demonstrated, many (perhaps most) people seem happy to live in some
> version of
> Orwell's world.
>
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