| Notice: Due to time and schedule constraints, I've decided to not maintain this blog for future information. I am leaving the blog online so people can access the posts which are in the blog. The blog covers about 10 years of history and gives a good picture of the practices of government and industry. This picture can be used to predict the future. |
This website uses media articles and government and industry documents to show how governments and corporations are taking freedoms and privacy from us. In addition, those organizations are assuming control over the moral values taught to our children. Are these actions justified? How far should governments and corporations go? This site does not answer these questions. Instead, it presents facts so you can make your own decisions about the matter. Governments must have the ability to track and locate terrorists, but they must do so while preserving the rights and privacy of their citizens. All articles referenced were obtained from the publications cited. This website is not affiliated with any political party or politician.
In reading the source articles, be aware that articles may be written from biased viewpoints and you may need to sort through inflammatory statements to find the objective information that caused the articles to be included in this site.
In his classic novel, 1984, George Orwell described a totalitarian society in which the government, referred to as the Party, had almost total control over the people. The supreme ruler of the Party was Big Brother. Posters announced that "Big Brother is Watching You". Telescreens droned endlessly with brainwashing propaganda about wondrous government programs. Coins, stamps, books, films, and banners proclaimed the three slogans of the Party: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.
Police Patrol helicopters darted among the roofs of the buildings, allowing police to snoop in people's windows. As insidious as the Police Patrol was, the government agents most feared were the Thought Police. Telescreens not only transmitted government policies in the homes, they also transmitted back to the Thought Police both sounds and pictures from inside the homes. Distinctions between people were reduced through referring to the people as "Comrade" rather than as "Mr." or "Mrs." People were taught to hate their enemies through thought-control from the telescreens that drove the people into frenzied displays of rage and hatred. Neighbors were enlisted by the Thought Police to spy on each other to root out unorthodoxy from society. People lived by rigid schedules dictated by the Thought Police. Loud alarms were transmitted from the telescreens to announce when people should be doing the tasks that were specified by the Party, such as their daily exercises.
Walter Cronkite, in his Preface to the paperback edition of 1984 published by The New American Library, said Orwell wrote his novel as an essay on "power, how it is acquired and maintained, how those who seek it or seek to keep it tend to sacrifice anything and everything in its name." (p. 2) That statement gives us the key: the real purpose of control is power; power over others. Knowing that political leaders seek control over us should not surprise us, for government is an evolutionary thing and usually evolves towards more control.
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