How To Post Absolutely Anonymously?. The year is 2007. The "war on terrorism" has gone on for years and there is no end in sight. FBI investigations of "suspicious persons" at American companies and the media frenzy about Middle Eastern terrorists has gotten to the point that many Muslim Americans have lost their jobs because they are considered "security liabilities." Word leaks out that the all-seeing eye of the Information Awareness Office, headed by Bush's crony John Poindexter (the Reaganite of Iran-Contra fame), is using its powers to spy on "leftist radicals," which in actuality is just about anyone criticizing Bush, Israel, American foreign policy in the Middle East, reading Chomsky, or sympathizing with the plight of Muslims. It is the new McCarthyism, and you do not want to be its next victim. What do you do? [kuro5hin.org]
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Correlate this story to the stuff the Shifted Librarian and others have put me on to (but otherwise I've heard little about) about all books in the very near future being chipped with wireless transmitters for tracking and location. A librarian's dream, right? Every book. Someone will be able to track every book you have.

Books will be more exhaustively tracked than guns. Think about it. Do we need the equivalent of the second amendment for books? Does everyone have the right to keep and bear books? NRA would be happy to tell you the next step after registration is confiscation. Since books will come to you essentially pre-registered, ready to help catalog the thoughts in your head, we can CLEARLY see what the Powers That Be in the world think is more dangerous.

Miasma

Convicted? Need a Gun? No Problem. Thousands of individuals who aren't legally permitted to buy firearms are purchasing them with little effort, despite a system of background checks that's supposed to stop them. By Lia Steakley. [Wired News]

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