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- Driver's Seat
                         - Five Months Statistics
                         - The FBI Investigations
                         - I Can See What You Are Thinking
                         - Why I Monitor
                      o On Being Monitored


If you are an ordinary citizen, you may not notice the
INVISIBLE massive spy apparatus until it is too late.

As has already happened repeatedly: the government will use
this National Spying Apparatus to crush political protests,
and monitor the politically incorrect.

In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s... and the 1990s.


Question:

    Why argue against something that would catch crime?

Answer:

    ECHELON is so invasive we lose all privacy.
    It is infinitely abusable.
    It has been abused repeatedly.
    CALEA takes us into the abyss.


Would monitoring really turn up that many violations?
Meaning: is it really that effective a mechanism?



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                              On Monitoring
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I am a traffic analysis person.

Internet email.  Company spook.

Boo.

The bad news: getting people fired.

The good news: really great Internet humor is picked up too.


    From the land of "Put the shrimp on the barby, Marlene:"
 
    I was travelling on a tram the other day and in one seat
    there was an old digger (Australian soldier or ex soldier)