Surveillance State Does Not Belong In A "Free" Country

Here are some recent status updates from my facebook page.  I thought they should be seen here.  (And, yeah, I use hashtags sometimes in a non-Twitter setting.)

-Privacy matters. Yes, it matters. As a group of authors recently calling for a "Bill of Digital Rights" put it: a person under surveillance is not free. Think about that, and let the truth of it sink in.

-Your indifference to living in a surveillance state is proportional to your willingness to be manipulated by those who are watching you. #BraveNewWorld #1984 #ItCan'tHappenHere #WhyHaveStalkerLaws?

-Imagine a prison or jail without any surveillance of its population whatsoever. What would that mean for the prisoners? Given time and opportunity, their freedom. Get it? People who are under surveillance are not free. #SovietUnion #EasternBlocCountries #ItIsABigDeal

-If you support "stalker laws" but are indifferent to living in a surveillance state, you're missing something. #privacymatters #yourprivacymatters #IHaveNothingToHideIsNotThePoint

-If an individual doesn't have the right to stalk people, then how does a GROUP of people get the right to stalk everyone? Stalker laws are unconstitutional if what the NSA has been doing is not. #CannotHaveItBothWays #NoSurveillanceState