Thursday, April 15, 2010

Ghost of 'Total Information Awareness'

By Coleen Rowley
April 15, 2010

Since we all tend to reflexively cringe whenever someone mentions the ideological “F” topic, I’m going to try and minimize some of the natural revulsion and denial by writing the full word that we usually fear to name only once: fascism.

Read on.

1 comment:

rosemerry said...

wonderful post! It really worries me to see the freedoms fought for so hard over hundreds of years being jettisoned on the altar of GWOT. A little thought, as well as all the evidence, makes it obvious that huge data banks do not help prevent terrorism, and that making enemies is hardly beneficial to making us all safer. To call any resistance movement "terrorist" and search for Ts under every bed and in every computer is madness. Thanks Coleen!