Thursday, January 16, 2003

American Civil Liberties Union : “Big Brother” is No Longer a Fiction, ACLU Warns in New Report

Given the capabilities of today’s technology, the only thing protecting us from a full-fledged surveillance society are the legal and political institutions we have inherited as Americans,” he added. “Unfortunately, the September 11 attacks have led some to embrace the fallacy that weakening the Constitution will strengthen America.”

However, after the posting of more pages and information on the Department of Homeland Security Cultural Bureau Homepage it is obvious that it is a hoax, for now. I seem to have stumbled across it even before all the first pages were up. In some ways it served a purpose, I became much more interested in finding out what was going on with Ashcroft, Ridge, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bennett, Perle, and the gang of neo-conservatives. I did learn about them and learned that like all good hoaxes the Homeland Security Cultural Bureau is only a thin line away from the truth.

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