<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    It seems when Orwell wrote 1984 a while back he was on to something.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The leading totalitarian power was constantly engaged with an unknown</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>or vague </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>enemy with unknown casualties on the front.   If I recall these battles had</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>to be fought with utmost secrecy so as to not endanger people on the</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>home  George W, B wants to </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>wage war on terror whatever that is exactly,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>until the idea is defeated.  </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rumsfeld feels a know language (perhaps Newspeak will do) </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>needs to be </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>invented to deal with this menace.   Probably the most serious consequence</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>bombing of this will be further erosion of civil liberties mostly to avoid embarrassment of the state.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Its amazing to me that current security lapses were known for years and nothing </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>substantial until recently if now was done about it probably because dealing with the problem</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>was thought to threaten the airlines bottom line.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>----</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael Cohen<BR>Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems<BR>677 Beacon Street, Rm 313<BR>Boston, Mass 02215<BR>Tel:   (home)  617-734-8828<BR>          (work) (617)  617-353-9484<BR>Home Addr:  25 Stearns RD #3<BR>Brookline Mass 02446</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>