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What will happen when a president pushes through a bill that authorizes the secret service to introduce any sort of punishment they desire with no questions asks? What is behind this terrorist scam anyway? It is infuriating to know that this president is taking the liberty to set a precedent. The internment is largely illegal and yet the Senate itself is too weak to overthrow the decision of the head of state to unleash the worst sort of interrogation practice that puts the Holocaust and other atrocities to shame. The authors of the investigative practices will also be putting together personality files much like they do today but anyone that comes close to matching a profile of a suspected terrorist is going to be arrested even though that individual has not conceived or planned any plot against the government. It all sounds like 1984.

Coincidentally I was listening to a radio program about how photographic surveillance is becoming more and more prevalent as we are living up to a Huxley prediction about gearing ourselves into a mire of deceitful controls. The buffer zone between being monitored at your workbench and being scrutinized as you ask your workmate on a date is becoming thinner it seems. I see the introduction of any punishment method to elicit responses from innocent detained people working hand in hand with an upsurge in the spread of control systems used to harass people. I know we have rights to privacy but how will we be protected in years to come from invasive bosses and secret service people who would arrest anyone they find as exhibiting suspicious behaviour?