Call me paranoid or say I have a guilty conscience, but I don't want people to know where I am at all times.

and kids these days are doing it of their own free will. That's the future of surrveilance - get people to want it, hell, even pay money for the "service".

Privacy Lost: These Phones Can Find You By LAURA M. HOLSON If G.P.S. made it harder to get lost, new cellphone services are now making it harder to hide.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/technology/23mobile.html?th&emc=th

Timeline:

Oct/Nov 2007 Congress passes legislation giving telecom companies immunity for compying with warrantless wiretap requests from the Federal Government (www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/18/dems-make-deal-with-bush-n68957.html)

October 2007: It's revealed that telecoms are paid $1000 for the first month of a wiretap and $750 for each additional month (http://isen.com/blog/2007/10/wiretaps-are-telco-profit-centers.html)

October 2008 - A National Emergency that conforms to National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive NSPD 51/HSPD 20 is declared, martial law is declared and the 2008 presidential election is canceled for the duration.

Nov 2008 - Bush (defacto and one could argue dejure dictator due to that executive order) orders the secret wiretapping of all US phone lines under the pretext of capturing the terrorists who created the National Emergency. The telecoms are delighted.

Nov 2012 Bush declares martial law still in effect as terrorists have still not been captured etc (like he's going to arrest himself) and the 2012 elections are canceled.

There is a synergy between the "intellectual property/stop piracy" lobby, digital rights would-be managers, and the project for the New American Centurions/total information awareness crowds. Perhaps the Fundamentalist Creationists/NRA roobs are about to be augmented, or even replaced, in an anti-piracy, "pro-security" alliance. Big Media is as keen on retaining its grip as are the Republicrats, Demopublicans, whoever, Giulihillary Rudiani-Rodham, Clint Romney, whats-their-name,... the public faces of a relatively small, select collective... Call them The Marginalizers, Them Who have the power to marginalize, and want to hang on to that power at any cost, and can easily afford to do it. Their public "debates" are for show.

Kucinich, I believe, is an example of a marginalizee, not an -er.

Oprah is neutral, so far.

Wolf!

The Onion: Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough?

Ironically, these sometimes very dangerous people, are NOT taken very seriously, as in the Virginia Tech, case, e.g., and the conditions which lead to them, for them, to terrorize, are thought to be beyond the pale of study by "reasonable" people, outside of a few, isolated, specialists. Or only with 20/20 hindsight, by more-generalists.

I think I'm going to cry.

2008 presidential election is cancelled ...

yes! Long Live Dick Cheney!