[lbo-talk] Hill refines her posish on war

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/17/07, Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Jordan:
> But it
> will be available in the future, when you do step out
> of line, in whatever way you will.
> ..................
> Contemporary forms of "surveillance" are built upon
> cheap data storage and ubiquitous computing.  As you
> say Jordan, immediate 'investigation' has little to do
> with it; 'data harvesting' and 'data warehousing' for
> potential future use are the actual goals.

Most Americans don't plan on stepping out of any line, and that's why
data warehousing and harvesting doesn't cause any outrage, except for
people like Ralph Nader, who is said to shun using credit cards among
other things.  If torture doesn't motivate people to rally against it,
surveillance surely won't.
-- 
Yoshie