What's an average day like for you? You wake up, shower, dress, go to work, school. How many times do you use your atm debit card, credit card? Do you use it to get cash back from the grocery store's Point-of-Sale system? Do you use it to purchase gas for your car?
What about your cell phone? Are you able to turn off its Global Positioning System? Did you use a new app to make a deposit into your checking account?
And, what about all of those surveys that are listed at the bottom of our store receipts or popping up on the screen while surfing the Internet? Have you applied for a loan, gotten a quote for insurance and the result was determined by a number given by the Fair Isaac Corporation or your FICO score? Did you play X-Box with the kids or was it the Wii? Did you watch shows on your Digital Video Recorder, use your computer to videochat on Skype? Did you use your Voice over Internet Protocol (Voice over IP, VoIP) or your bundled phone and cable package?
In 24 hours, how many times were your activities monitored? Did you know they were?
Turn off the "Dancing With The Stars" results and open your eyes. Open your Bible. Can you believe for a minute that maybe, just maybe, there is more going on than you could imagine or would even want to believe?
We have the Occupy Wall Street Movement. People are fed up. And it's affecting all of us. Well, not exactly. There's the 1% (Remember the 90/10 Rule?) who it really isn't affecting but they have to act like it does. Then, there are those who are not in favor of the OWS movement (53%). So, I guess that leaves us, ( the 46%).
Where do you stand? Are you affected? What is the original intention operating here? Is there another world being created? Are we being fooled?
"An educated populace is a dangerous populace."
~ Jonathan Kozol
Quotes from the movie Enemy of The State:
Larry King: How do we draw the line - draw the line between protection of national security, obviously the government's need to obtain intelligence data, and the protection of civil liberties, particularly the sanctity of my home? You've got no right to come into my home!
Congressman Sam Albert: [on TV] We knew that we had to monitor our enemies. We've also come to realise that we need to monitor the people who are monitoring them...
Congressman Phillip Hammersley: Telecommunications Security and Privacy Act. Invasion of privacy is more like it. - You read the Post? "This bill is not the first step towards the surveillance society. It is the surveillance society."
Thomas Reynolds: Privacy's been dead for years because we can't risk it. The only privacy that's left is the inside of your head. Maybe that's enough. You think we're the enemy of democracy, you and I? I think we're democracy's last hope.
Brill: In the old days, we actually had to tap a wire into your phone line. Now with calls bouncing off satellites, they snatch'em right out of the air.
Brill: The government's been in bed with the entire telecommunications industry since the forties. They've infected everything. They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls... Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to keep tabs on you. It's a brave new world out there. At least it'd better be.
"It is the surveillance society."
~tcps
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