Posted on 06/22/2013 5:11:34 PM PDT by rickmichaels
“Everybody knew everybody else’s business.”
Nothing beats village gossip for truth and accuracy.
so THAT is the meaning of It Takes a Village”
It's that simple. Privacy is demanded by human dignity.
Sadly, people of that caliper are few and far between. The vast majority have decided it's better to accept the blackmail or the bribe and go along with The Chicago Way...
...still others just enjoy the gravy train...
Except back then you knew who knew you. Now that link's severed. The contractor reviewing your data has never met you. Like the relationship between the concentration camp guards and the Jews, you've been de-humanized, and have become a thing to be controlled.
NOW there’s a gallery of loosers...
Any geeks out there know how much input it would take to crash the super-mega-gagillionquadrillion computers? Maybe the chinese will join in?
Just a question, I have more important things to do, like work on overturning Roe V Wade.
Anonymous is a bunch of losers. Their skills over way over rated.
Remember when they were going to release all those encrypted files on the SC Justices?? It was all B.S. They had nothing.
Their politics are far, far, far left.
The only people Anonymous hates are Conservatives and others who believe in limited government.
A clear violation of our rights under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
If this nimrod likes surveillance so much why doesn’t he move to England where they have so many cameras he could save a trip to the Proctologist.
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
If I kept the author under surveillance, it would be called “stalking” and she would probably call the police to protect her. But when government does it, somehow it is just fine? Maybe for the author, but not for me.
You can bet some enterprising anti establishment types with the right skills are planning just that. Actually, I guess you could say they already are when they break into government computers.
Question for everyone, how much has the government been monitoring what we all post here?
"Here is how Foucault described the Panopticon: "
“Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; that the perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary; that this architectural apparatus should be a machine for creating and sustaining a power relation independent of the person who exercises it; in short, that the inmates should be caught up in a power situation of which they are themselves the bearers.
To achieve this, it is at once too much and too little that the prisoner should be constantly observed by an inspector: too little, for what matters is that he knows himself to be observed; too much, because he has no need in fact of being so.
In view of this, Bentham laid down the principle that power should be visible and unverifiable. Visible: the inmate will constantly have before his eyes the tall outline of the central tower from which he is spied upon. Unverifiable: the inmate must never know whether he is being looked at at any one moment; but he must be sure that he may always be so. In order to make the presence or absence of the inspector unverifiable, so that the prisoners, in their cells, cannot even see a shadow, Bentham envisaged not only venetian blinds on the windows of the central observation hall, but, on the inside, partitions that intersected the hall at right angles and, in order to pass from one quarter to the other, not doors but zig-zag openings; for the slightest noise, a gleam of light, a brightness in a half-opened door would betray the presence of the guardian.
The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen.”
Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, New York: Vintage Books, 1995, pp. 195-228, translated from the French by Alan Sheridan (translation 1977)
Source: here.
The biggest problem is that, when it finally gets so big as to be totally irrelevant, the People will have been irrelevant for some time prior...
Cameras,cameras everywhere, supplemented with gov’t rats and mountains of “metadata.” A prison without walls.
If I recall my Orwell properly, they don’t care about the “proles”. In fact, the more they were mired in their self-destructive pursuits the easier they were to keep penned in.
It was the intellectuals, etc. Big Brother was after.
Not just Orwell, but Hitler (with his decimation of the Polish intelligentsia) and Stalin (with his show trials).
It’s really not hard for anyone to see, even though they try to infect us with the cataracts of false accusations (racist, etc.)
Your last post was NSA Ref. No. 734282139872390423329, just so you know.
Just watch how magically it will matter if a Republican administration ever gets back into office.
There will soon after be screaming, howling and gnashing of teeth.
Along with “George Bush’s fault”
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