Sunni's Privacy Project
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 08 Jan 2005 13:00:00 GMT
From smith2004:
"Despite the high cost of living, it remains a popular item." -- Unknownand:
"The only place a gun belongs in New York City is in the holster of law enforcement and there is no reason why anyone in New York City should own a gun". - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
# Sunni Maravillosa - Project Announcement Time! - Sunni has been promising a surprise for a while now. Here's the announcement. She's going to write a book about threats to your privacy and ideas for countering them. [sunni]
We're trapped by laws that their creators claim will help protect our privacy, but which actually create more loopholes through which sensitive information slips; we're trapped between corporate policies that allow video surveillance when we shop at their stores and those that track us online -- both of which plug us into ever-growing databases that are built, then rented, sold, and swapped without our knowledge and consent; and worst, we're trapped in a culture that views anyone who wants some privacy as being an individual with something to hide.
I'm tired of it all. And I'm doing something to strike against it all.
# Doug French at LewRockwell.com - A Tale of the Resistance - a review of Vin Suprynowicz' first novel, The Black Arrow. Still no word on the exact shipping date of the hardcover, but since the trade paperback is slated to ship in April, my bet is that it will ship in March, but I wish it were earlier. I pre-ordered a copy quite a while back. [clairefiles]
Despite being set more than two decades from now, the government abuses sparking the revolution actually happened during the past decade. Although fictionalized, most readers will recognize stories such as: a certain doctor being arrested and losing his license for over-prescribing pain medication; an innocent wife, her son and family dog being gunned down by federal agents; the free speech rights of an income tax protester being trampled upon; the false imprisonment of a young man who made millions as a teenager selling drugs, who started when an elderly neighbor asked him to acquire some marijuana for medicinal purposes; an occupied family-owned building being seized without due process through eminent domain; intrusive searches at the airport, a family man sent away to prison for unknowingly selling horticulture supplies to supposed drug dealers, and so on.
By 2031, the government has become even more out of control. The TSA-airport searches are expanded onto America's city streets. Roadblocks are everywhere. Not having your children implanted with ID chips is a crime. Unlicensed daycare centers are raided. Those who get out of line are gunned down in the street.
But a hero emerges to take the country back: the Black Arrow. And Suprynowicz makes his hero bigger than life -- a Randian superman. An ex-rock and roll singer, the Black Arrow by day is a millionaire businessman, who is smart, muscular, handsome, and, of course, an expert with a compound bow. By night he turns into a killing machine, leading a rag-tag group of highly skilled commandos who live in the city sewer system in an assault on those who deny us our freedom. Our hero has no use for the "well-meaning, pasty-faced, overweight guys with pocket protectors. I'm sure they're going to figure out a foolproof letter-to-the-editor that'll win us back our freedoms any week now," scoffs the black arrow in one of the books memorable passages.
