After the demise of the constitutional republic, the North American Surveillance State continues to grow ever nastier, complete with an unconscionable slur on the good name of Albert Einstein. See the article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070202... The need for tools like tor and PGP/GPG ought to become more and more apparent to Americans as time goes on. Meet the new boss: same as the old boss. Joe Stalin, eat your heart out. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ********************************************************************** ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE