"Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net> writes:
(As noted in the Declan story, the machinery of having government issue policy cards, if successful, essentially blocks dissidents and revolutionaries from gaining certain powers. The U.S. _used_ to support dissidents and revolutionaries in various countries...no longer, I guess. The price of winning the Cold War: complacency.)
I don't think it has to do with complacency. US support for "dissidents and revolutionaries" was definitely not based on revolutionaryism, nor on "cold-war" policy support for democracy, as Noam Chomsky likes to drill into our heads over and over.
Time to dust off those "Big Brother Inside" stickers someone had printed up a couple of years ago.
I know that Intel has succeeded in forcing the "Linux Inside" logo and stickers off the net on threats of trademark infringement suits. I have a feeling "Big Brother Inside" would make them even more upset. Dave