BIG BROTHER IS ALMOST THERE: NO PLACE TO HIDE

Apparently the FBI has built the most massive data base in the world. An AlterNet article by Tana Ganeva writes:  The FBI claims its database (IAFIS) is the largest in the world. There are 70 million subjects in the master criminal file, 31 million civil prints, as well as 73,000 known and suspected terrorists by the U.S.or by international saw enforcement agencies who work with the U.S.  For more detail, click here.

When we were able to trust law enforcement, all of us who knew we were doing nothing illegal felt safe.  After hearing all the false accusations, people illegally moved out of the U.S. by mistaken identity, none of this should feel entirely comfortable to any of us.  I have little fear of the database but tremendous fear of the people who run it.  Since the human hand is required in everything, the possibility of human error looms high.  There are none of us who haven't had our medical records show up with errors, billings inaccurate, charges inaccurate, and almost anything that can go wrong, at some time doing just that when a human has had a hand in it.

"The agency's plans for Next Generation Identification (NGI), a massive, billion-dollar upgrade that will hold iris scans, photos searchable with face recognition technology, palm prints, and measures of gait and voice recordings alongside records of fingerprints, scars, and tattoos. :writes Ms Ganeva

Soon the saying, "You can run but you can't hide " will have us all running back to read the writing of the psychotic author of 1984.  We will watch movies like Vendetta and Matrix, and search ways to find freedom from this perpetual scrutiny.

According to Daniel Tencer of The Raw Story, at least 78 Republican candidates would force a woman to bear rapist's babies.  Apparently we have our old fiend friend Phyllis Schlafly (who started this group) to thank for this.  As I read this, I tried to play out some possible scenarios in my head.  #1 a mother of five, husband out of work, little money to pay for groceries and the roof over their heads, is raped and left pregnant.  How would forcing her to have this baby help any one?  Balancing out those five children of hers watching her belly grow, forcing her husband to have to raise the child as his because they are legally married or find a less legal solution, and let us all hope there will be no psychological consequences added to their current mind-numbing woes.

#2  daughter, with a sister who is also adulterously being used by their father, finds herself pregnant as a result.  Mother is no longer able to look on with denial since the daughter has clearly not dated.  The marriage does not survive, mother and two daughters now without the father as a breadwinner struggle for survival.  Adding to their misery, father goes to jail when the doctors find out who the father of the child is and he is sent to jail.

I'm sure I could go on with these scenarios, many of which I've been pretty close to in my years of practicing family therapy.  For a group professing to want less government, how can there be an intelligent human being who doesn't see through their hypocrisy?  It translates to "Get out of my life, government, unless it is something I want...regardless of whether my fellow man agrees, because I am biased and pigheaded with the wish to inflict my values on all."

Tana Ganeva published, in AlterNet, five GOP candidates who would force women to bear children as the result of rape.  They are: 1. Rand Paul (Kentucky); Christine O'Donnell (Delaware), Sharron Angle (Nevada), Ken Buck (Colorado), Joe Miller (Alaska).  One can only seriously question the judgment (or even sanity) of  those politicians who consider this a worthwhile platform to run on in an era when people need to eat, pay rent, taxes, and survive in the job-hungry economy.  That should tell their supporters something critical but it is not likely to do much because, unfortunately, their supporters are as fanatical as they with equally poor sense of what the country needs to survive.  Lots of money is pouring into the coffers of these candidates and, again, one has to wonder where ti is coming from.  These people are driving our country to H*** in the proverbial hand basket, for sure.

I can see Uncle Sam on the floor yelling now, "Help!. Help!, I've fallen and I can't get up!"