Scientia Est Potentia (Knowledge Is Power)

I’m sorry… but aren’t you WORRIED yet…???!!! You should be:

If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you:

Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as “a virtual, centralized grand database.”

To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you — passport application, driver’s license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance — and you have the supersnoop’s dream: a “Total Information Awareness” about every U.S. citizen.

This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the unprecedented power he seeks.

This is not fiction, and it is no longer something you can afford to disregard – the freedoms that we’ve cherished for so long in this country are being ripped out from under your feet.
Don’t think it doesn’t matter to you, that it won’t affect you – because by the time it does, it will be too late to do a thing about it.

CONTACT YOUR SENATORS NOW to let them know you do not approve of such bastardization of the concepts this country was founded upon and what its Constitution represents. Tell them to amend this unacceptable version of the Homeland Security Act. It is the most American thing you could do.

• You Are a Suspect