Newsgroups: talk.politics.crypto,alt.privacy.clipper,alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) Subject: Re: What's so bad about a Surveillance State? Message-ID: <tcmayCMqxB0.Ap6@netcom.com> Followup-To: talk.politics.crypto,alt.privacy.clipper,alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk References: <2lqka4$c5o@bilbo.suite.com> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 07:11:24 GMT From: Department of Internal Surveillance To: List cc: Eric Blair, Director of IntSur Code: 42-750aF-966 Citizen-Unit Jim-Miller@suite.com (ID: 6A8-32-k40B) wrote: : It is obvious to me that many people in the government wish to turn the US : into a surveillance state. What's so bad about that? It seems to me that : a lot of good could come from it. Citizen-Unit Miller is to be commended for his recognition that the common good is served when the state fulfills its surveillance obligations. However, we note that Citizen-Unit Miller is delinquent in completing his Good Citizenship video coursework (entirely too much MTV was watched last week, Citizen-Unit Miller...consider this the third of your four allowable warnings). Citizen-Unit Miller has also wasted too much time (14.982 hours last week) on the so-called Internet, indicating he needs a Learning Reinforcement Regimen. He has been ordered to report to the Austin Processing Center. An orderly society demands that citizen-units be monitored for behavior injurious to the harmony of the larger society. The Position Escrow system was developed to allow precise tracking of movements (although this information is available to the state only when the state needs it, as per the Clipper key escrow precedent). In closing, we wish to remind all citizen-units that surveillance is needed to detect deviant behavior, to ensure full working efficiency, and to remove from the body of society those with archaic visions of individual freedom. Surveillance is Security! --Citizen-Unit Timothy C. May (One informal warning, Citizen-Unit Miller: Your caloric input from cheeseburgers and other Unapproved Dietary Items is dangerously close to the levels which will result in your placement in a dietary reeducation camp, as per Executive Order 97-652A, signed by President-Unit Clinton. We all saw what eating too many cheeseburgers did to her husband-unit!) Peace. -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."