Good pic of the government's sniper team. Nothing like the patsies that they've framed.

the net came about as the result of usa govt military research, and is now the preserve of huge corporations (microsoft, netscape etc).
in fact, the net merely replicates the dilemmas created by computers of old; their chief advantage is that they process information RAPIDLY, but by reducing all said info to digitization. the computer becomes a direct arbiter of any info transmitted, actively breaking it down into the 1 and 0 we know. it is therefore much more intrusive than the passive trnasmitters of info such as a telephone exchange.
there are, naturally, many uses of the net, and we should make use of them, while guarding our natural civil liberties. however, some people are oddly unaware of just how the net operates: they seem to think its just their own little pc terminal talking directly to someone elses little terminal, and this can produce some very sloppy thinking in regard to personal security.
i suggest we look at this in the following way; classic sociology of media, pioneered by the existentialists and situationists, identified the 'concentrate image' (typically, cinema) and the 'diffuse image' (TV etc). The net has taken this on one step further and produced what i define as the 'atomised image'. it doesnt change the nature of capitalist control at all, merely gives it a new face. Marx identified the central dilemma of capitalism as residing in the machine itself, wryly noting that even capitalists didnt grasp the central principle; true, he wrote about steam engines and weaving looms, but his observations about the way machines tended to increase the alienation of the workers and produce hyper-profit while reducing suplus value to almost zero, still hold true. This is why the highly profitable IT section of the stock market went through slump and bankrupcy.
just a few thoughts...

this may sound paranoid, but what the hell...

on the internet, all communication happens inside a fishbowl. inside a defined, closed space. i.e., the "network". in my opinion, privacy is impossible in this defined space. especially the kind of privacy found in organically speaking to someone else in the middle of a field somewhere, or mailing a physical letter or parcel, which is protected by law from tampering. they tell us e-mail is "private", but because its impossible to verify this with our own eyes/senses, how would we ever really know?

it shouldn't be surprising that something like ESCHELON exists. it is the primary "sensor" that keeps track of all the back and forth communicating inside the fishbowl. the paranoid bit is, what if that was the idea of the internet "project"? to get all communication to fit inside a closed space, SO THAT IT COULD BE MONITORED?

Remember to act for you rights.

A good start is using independent media center
for spreading the word - as you have done now.

Thanks to free speech on indymedia.

Freedom of speech isn`t free on the corporate medias slaughterdesk.

You remember that.

I´ve stopped believing in this radical nonsense-propaganda. Every regime uses coercion, violence and brutality in order to maintain it´s own supremacy.
Fight totalitarian messages like the one above. See through their barricades of bullshit! Live your own life without paying attention to the hyped-up suckers of the so called "radical" left!!!
Resist leftist, bonehead hype!!!!