> The Latin motto over Poindexter"s new Pentagon office reads
> "Scientia Est Potentia" - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the
> government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over
> you.
The Latin dictionary at my fingertips (Chambers-Murray) translates potentia as follows:
A. in gen[eral] a. force, power. b. strength, force, efficacy. B. in partic[ular]: political power, esp[ecially] unofficial or unconstitutional power.
Not that Poindexter would know anything about sense B.
--tim francis-wright