BIG BROTHER

Beware of VICTORY Act, US privacy group warns

A US consumer watchdog group is sounding an alarm over some pending legislation. The National Consumer Coalition's Privacy Group recently read a draft copy of the VICTORY Act, which 'has some chilling implications for consumer privacy,' the group said.
Attorney General John Ashcroft plans to promote both the VICTORY Act and the USA PATRIOT Act on his ten-day, 20-stop tour of America, which begins on Tuesday, Aug. 19.
According to the NCC's Privacy Group, the VICTORY legislation is 'a grab-bag of enhanced police-state powers.'

[VICTORY stands for Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act of 2003. However it is just as much another insidious bit of Orwellian Newspeak. Just as his novel 1984 has been co-opted by the cultural arm of the global elite in the form of the global tv phenomenon Big Brother, now Victory suffers the same fate.
In the novel Newspeak expert Syme says, "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make Thoughtcrime impossible because there will be no words in which to express it."]

[By comparison with that existing today, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient.... Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance.... [But] [w]ith the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.... Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed. The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time. -- 1984 by George Orwell]