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11.19.2001
This Is Increasingly WorrisomeYou hear about this? The government is pulling information from libraries across the country. Information that they believe could possibly be damaging to us. Information that could reveal our vulnerabilities. Supposedly. I don't know, but maybe "1984" was about 17 years off. I mean, I could see how some information could lead to terrorist actions. But as I see it, they can get that information other ways. Destroying public records doesn't hurt the terrorists any. It hurts the people that they are supposedly trying to save. It puts more fear in our lives. It almost puts restrictions on what we are allowed to produce. What's next, Thought Police? Here's another such instance. The introduction of the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act" (USA PATRIOT Act) It's an act that wasn't even available for viewing before it had to be voted on. This act gets rid of some of our basic liberties that were given to us early on. It gets rid of the need of a warrant and notification to the person to search property. As it says in the article: The Fourth Amendment states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." They're breaking the 4th Amendment. They've broken the 4th Amendment. To heck with that, right? And also, from the article: Under the USA PATRIOT Act in this country, Section 802 defines domestic terrorism as engaging in "activity that involves acts dangerous to human life that violate the laws of the United States or any state and appear to be intended: (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping." (i): As I see it, that's what the government is doing to us. That's wrong. That's just wrong. (iii): And in the third one, "mass destruction", makes me think of something else. I'd say those sweeping destructions of public information is an infringement on how this country was supposed to run. Infringement on the government, my foot. Say goodbye to your freedoms, friends. And say goodbye to any lasting skeleton of a world we once knew. We all start turning against ourselves, everywhere and everyday, we're no better than rats in a sinking ship.
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