Rumsfeld warns that the enemy can succeed in changing our way of life. It already has.
by Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice February 12th, 2006
There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you were being
watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system the Thought
Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. . . . But at
any rate they would plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had
to live- did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption
that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every
movement scrutinized. -George Orwell [more]
watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system the Thought
Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. . . . But at
any rate they would plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had
to live- did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption
that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every
movement scrutinized. -George Orwell [more]