future nightmare: 'recording everything'

An Activist Post entry by Brandon Turbeville reveals how governments will shape dissent in near future.  The Brookings Institute published new report, "Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Governments," makes clear the chilling effect on dissent.  Data storage costs will decline, making it possible, everything will be recorded.  Dissenters, who become a problem, will discover dossiers compiled against them that can reach, well, into the past.  Turnips, who dismiss Orwellian methods as paranoia of "conspiracy nuts", will be forced to reexamine mistaken assumptions of freedom and privacy. You may read other interesting articles by Turbeville here.

espionage act rears ugly head

(Note: This writer's greatest apprehension is the coming clamp down on the internet.) Naomi Wolf, writes in Huffington Post, reprinted at Before It's News, "Espionage Act Rears Its Ugly Head And Threatens American Tradition Of Freedom" recaps oppressive history of this flawed law. The 1917 law was used to suppress dissent of anti-war advocates. Many people were imprisoned. We may face a similar political fate? Wolf aptly observes, "'Step Ten'...to a closed society: 'Rename Dissent 'Espionage' and Criticism of Government, 'Treason'." This is a reference to her ten steps from her book, "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot". Benjamin Wittes, from The Brookings Institution, says in the same article, "Taken at its word, the Espionage Act makes felons of us all." Is this the path Wikileaks is leading us down?