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to me to represent a lack of respect for personal privacy.

How quaint, to want privacy.

Our privacy has been fading into a distant memory over the
last twenty years. And that's not even figuring ECHELON.

Just try leaving the hospital without naming your baby. The government
wants 'it' to be issued a social security number too, otherwise no tax
deducting it. Gosh, a birth certificate won't do, will it?

*   Source #1: HBO Undercover Special Report
*   Source #2: Computer Security Journal Vol IV #1,
*              "Peeping Sam: Uncle Is Watching Us", by George B. Trubow
*   
*   "We started getting letters from the Federal Government's Selective
*   Service System, telling us that our dog had to register." the father
*   explained. The letters became quite demanding.
*   
*   Shown are three children and their dog. One of the boys had an ice cream
*   cake birthday special at a popular national ice cream parlor chain, which
*   asks for your social security number to get the special.
*   
*   They were working with the government to spot unregistered children.
*   
*   The children had gone back in a week later and used their dog's name
*   to get the special again.
*
*   Since it was not the government collecting the social security numbers,
*   participants weren't told they were registering for the draft.
*   
*   Said one of the surprised children: "How cheesy of our government!"


NSA's ECHELON goes beyond any system Americans would EVER approve.

That's why we weren't asked.

If the full scope of ECHELON had been made public and debated
in Congress and passed: civil war would have bro