I don't define the most dangerous existential risk that we face in this age the "Orwellian Threat" for nothing. Check out.
www.alternet.org/rights/22048/
Spy vs. Spy
By Bill Piper, AlterNet. Posted May 18, 2005.
Proposed legislation would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, forcing all Americans to become foot soldiers in the war on drugs.
Neighbors spying on neighbors? Mothers forced to turn in their sons or daughters? These are images straight out of George Orwell's 1984, or a remote totalitarian state. We don't associate them with the land of the free and the home of the brave, but that doesn't mean they couldn't happen here. A senior congressman, James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), is working quietly but efficiently to turn the entire United States population into informants--by force.
Sensenbrenner, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman, has introduced legislation that would essentially draft every American into the war on drugs. H.R. 1528, cynically named "Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act," would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, and even go undercover and wear a wire if needed. If a person resisted, he or she would face mandatory incarceration. (excerpt)
www.alternet.org/rights/22048/
Spy vs. Spy
By Bill Piper, AlterNet. Posted May 18, 2005.
Proposed legislation would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, forcing all Americans to become foot soldiers in the war on drugs.
Neighbors spying on neighbors? Mothers forced to turn in their sons or daughters? These are images straight out of George Orwell's 1984, or a remote totalitarian state. We don't associate them with the land of the free and the home of the brave, but that doesn't mean they couldn't happen here. A senior congressman, James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), is working quietly but efficiently to turn the entire United States population into informants--by force.
Sensenbrenner, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman, has introduced legislation that would essentially draft every American into the war on drugs. H.R. 1528, cynically named "Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act," would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, and even go undercover and wear a wire if needed. If a person resisted, he or she would face mandatory incarceration. (excerpt)
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Re: Social Darwinism & the Orwellian Threat
Sat, July 9, 2005 - 9:50 PMMy only question to this congressman would be, "How, exactly, do you plan on going about enforcing this drek parading as legislation?" I mean, how does one go about proving that someone knew something that they didn't tell about?
The mandatory sentencing guidelines are the most onerous part of this whole bill; the remainder is pretty much a joke. There is no law currently barring brother from snitching his brother out to 'the man,' I doubt that anyone disinclined to report a friend or family member's chemical activities now would feel much by way of urgency as a result of this becoming law. "No Sir, I had no idea that my wife had a 100lb bale of maui wowie stashed in the basement. You say otherwise? Prove it."
