A disturbing report on the Big Brother front:
A terrorist surveillance program instituted by the Bush administration allows the intelligence community to monitor phone calls between the United States and overseas without a court order as long as one party to the call is a terror suspect.
Adrienne Kinne, a former U.S. Army Reserves Arab linguist, told ABC News the NSA was listening to the phone calls of U.S. military officers, journalists and aid workers overseas who were talking about “personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism.”
This is how it starts and one reason why the Patriot Act is dangerous. We already have “unpersons” (enemy combatants), and now surveillance is being stepped-up. Next come the Thought Police and the Ministries of Truth and Love. George Orwell is someone I’d not like to see proven right.
