Freedom & Security vs Privacy

No, I'm not talking about the TV show. I'm making a reference to the book "1984" by George Orwell. He was born in 1903 and died in 1950. I did read his book when I was young, I wish I remembered it better. My question is; How did he know?

Of course things haven't happened exactly as he wrote. However, I have to say it is starting to look a lot like it. In the world we live in today the bigger question is; "Is it worth giving up our personal Freedom and PRIVACY all in the name of Security?" They've been REALLY good at using scare tactics.

With crime the way it is, I want my family to be safe. If my 80 year old Mother gets robbed and beaten on a street corner or in a parking lot or in our home, I would love to have it recorded so that we could fight back, and find the perpetrators.

However, have you seen movies such as "Enemy of the State" with Will Smith? Scary isn't it?An ordinary man was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and it almost got him and his family killed. Which brings to mind, Why hasn't Obama overturned The Patriot Act?

Today, in the name of Security, we are allowing monitors in our homes that enables security companies to 'Listen In' if they think we are in trouble, like a home invasion. But really, how often could they just decide to listen in when we don't even know about it? And WHO could decide to listen in?

But so far in my life, I've never had a Home Invasion, or any other reason to use the things that are supposed to be so scarily important to us.

On an episode of one of the crime shows on TV the other night, a bad woman wanted to know if her informant was 'wired' with any type of listening or recording device. She even checked him for it and found nothing.

A few minutes later she was busted and the Detective laughed at her and told she really had been out of the loop for too long. That now days, they could hear and record her from the equipment they had in a van parked up the street. Dun, dun, Dunnn!

Most of us know that if we use certain trigger words on the phone or internet, we get flagged by THEM. There have been instances of people finding out that after some innocent thing they said or did, their co-workers or neighbors got questioned about them. It happened to me one time. The neighbor across the street told me that she had received a phone call from a man asking questions about our family and wanted to know who all lived in the house, and the comings and goings. He said he was doing a survey about how well neighbors knew each other in our area. I'm not sure who else was contacted.

I could have been doing research about something for a book I was writing, Or it could have been that the political sign I had placed in my yard didn't match most of the other ones around me. It was just before Bush got re-elected for the second time.

There are camera's just about everywhere now. Including the satellites above us. Have you seen Google Earth? It's really cool isn't it? And I do like the fact that they can keep a watch to see if anyone is building WOMD's around the world. Although it seems as if earthquakes, tsunami's and hurricanes are doing it too.

My husband told me that he had heard of an insurance company that would give you a big discount if you would let them put a monitor of some kind in your car to see if you ever speed and how many miles you drive, just little things like that. WHAT?

And now the announcement that ON STAR will soon be available for any of our cars. They can lock or unlock our vehicles, listen and talk to us while we are in our cars and so on. Some cars now an start themselves and do other cute things from a quite distant location.

I'm not sure if it's a lot of us, or most of us that now have a little web-cam on our computers. Isn't it fun to get to talk to and see friends and family that live in different locations? One time I had been talking to my sister in Connecticut on Skype, off and on. I guess I had turned the volume off for a while because they called me on the home phone and were laughing their heads off because they had been watching me work for over 30 minutes without my knowing it. lol - Good thing I have a sense of humor.

There are ways to turn your lights off and on in different rooms without anyone being home. Or unlock the door to our homes remotely. How nice. Or is it? Is all of this nice and fun, or if we really think about it, is it SCARY? Could it be used against us?

Even the little cards we use at grocery stores keep tabs on us. How we spend our money and on what types, brands and more information than we realize.

How easy is it to hack into this kind of stuff? If it gets into the wrong hands, safety goes right out the window.

Someone I know found out some shocking information about some of the big corporations we all know, use and like(d). It was really bad, but when they emailed me and a few others about it, they were shocked and appalled to see their picture and information up on those same corporations affiliated 'secret' website. I am not going to mention it here or - yet, but I can say more people are finding out about it.

I know by now the words conspiracy theorist is coming to mind. However, I've used very common things in my disclosures today. Most people know about everything I've written about, it just seems different when you start to put it all in one place. When you put it all together.

As one Great American said; "Without Freedom there can be no Peace."

I want to re-read Orwell's '1984' again. Just Sayin'. ; )

Drive Safely,

KT

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