Little Brother Proliferation
written by Peter William Lount
July 21, 2004

This item about privacy zones is important to anyone who cares about their privacy, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

England is an example of a society that has had a massive build up of cameras by private security and police forces alike. It's happening every in North America.

Little Brothers proliferate as advances in technology bring spying, information gathering and processing, and warfare technologies within reach of the masses. Groups of Little Brothers directing their energies and focus on specific goals such as corporate advantage or political motives shift the balance of power. May we survive these distrubances and use technology to forward us.

Unfortunately due to human nature there will be those amoung us who use the power to violate others with technology or by using force for their own aims. Governments are amoung the worst offenders [1] and now with the proliferation of many potent technologies the power to impact our world is now in the hands of a vast portion of the global population.

Each of has the power to create or destroy, the power to respect or violate, the power of life or death. Which do you choose?

[1] In the National Film Board of Canada and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) documentary, The Man Who Studies Murder - Part Two: The Anthropology of Murder, "Leyton looks at the cultural reasons that cause murder rates vary so wildly. And, as he travels to countries like Rwanda and Israel, he points out that even the most vile serial killers have nothing on the deadliest organizations on Earth--governments that encourage war and genocide."

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