SOCIAL: invisible governments

[Adrian.Cotter at sierraclub.org]

David Brin (on of my fav sci-fi writers, whose non sci-fi writings i like
more than some of their sci-fi) is the author of this interesting blog
post, putting his own spin on an article by Jonathan Schell on how to
combat the Bush administrations current descent into police statedom.

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/01/preventing-tyrannypart-one.htmlz

Brin is not against spying per se, It is the lack of oversight that is the
true issue at stake here. He has some interesting ideas on becoming a
transparent society -- he believes everything should be transparent ...
http://www.davidbrin.com/privacyarticles.html#ts

Jonathan Schell's article
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060109/schell

Adrian