ECHELON .... Global Surveillance by the US National Security Agency

[The] capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny.

U.S. Senator Frank Church, 1975


[The European Parliament recognises] the vital importance of having democratically accountable systems of control with respect to the use of these technologies and the information obtained [and asks] for such surveillance technologies to be subject to proper open debate both at national and EU level as well as procedures which ensure democratic accountability.

September 14, 1998

COINTELPRO .... the FBI's Shameful Human Rights Record






The purpose of this new counterintelligence endeavor is to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist, hate-type organizations and groupings, their leadership, spokesmen, membership, and supporters...

J Edgar Hoover, FBI Director, 1967


We were engaged in COINTELPRO tactics: to divide, conquer, weaken, in diverse ways, an organization.

SAC Cartha D. "Deke" Deloach


We shall provoke you to acts of terror and then crush you.

C.B. Zubatov, Tsarist police director








War on Drugs .... from Police Power to Police State





When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical constitution with a radical bill of rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly....

What's happened in America today is too many people live in areas where there's no family structure, no community structure and no work structure. And so there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it....

President Bill Clinton



Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Kurt Vonnegut