The World Of Privacy Does Not Exist

Posted on Monday, July 26 at 10:00 by Anonymous
I know my share of people who drive with out a license and I wonder if a terrorist would call of his act of terrorism if he can’t meet the six point tier system in the state of New Jersey for a license. Personally I am starting to notice a trend and its making me nervous. We are made to solidify who we are in order to get our proper papers. Wasn’t there a term, papers please spoken by guys kicking their feet high, walking like geese? The scariest part is was less then a hundred years ago. Most people who know me consider me way too left and I only try to explain to them I don’t believe everything I read or hear in the news. Those are profit making corporations that have an obligation to share holders before the people they report to. Back to identity theft, why is it every time you walk into a store you are offered to sign up for a discount card for ten percent off. Let’s get real people, they're tracking your data and making you a better consumer. Anybody who wants information on you is going to get it from your local book store or video store. I guarantee they have your home address and phone number on file. We know for a fact that the video store has your credit card on file. How come the government doesn’t crack down or regulate the information that big business collects from its consumers? Big business is the evil twin to big brother. One of the brothers is making sure we register ourselves properly and make sure we are who we say we are. The other brother is offering us ten percent off products so we give them all our information for a database. The two brothers got to be up to no good if you ask me. Perhaps I’m going through a stage in my life where I’m becoming a conspiracy theorist. What’s more likely is I am becoming older and more aware. I just finished reading a book about Napoleon Bonaparte as he grew in power and became Emperor. His brother Joseph Bonaparte was King of Naples and Luis King of Holland, certainly not a democracy. Here in the United States George Bush was Vice President and President. Both of his sons were Governors, one now President and the other still governor. Excuse me but where is the Democratic process? On the other side of the political table we have Kerry; I can’t seem to figure him out. However, her certainly married well. When does the American public wake up and vote for some person man, woman, and black, Chinese, Jew, Spanish or Muslim that can just do the job. The presidential race is turning into a trash throwing contest, why don’t they just mail us their resumes shut up and let us decide. Dump the electoral vote and let the people speak for once. It’s amazing we are bright enough to go work forty hours a week but we have to pay some one to do our taxes. Big brother is watching you, the caption beneath it ran. However big brother is not listening to you. They don’t hear the cries of young black mothers to bring their sons home from a war they believe is being fought over oil. Black Sabbath said it best "Politicians hide themselves away, they only started the war, why should they go out to fight? They leave their role to the poor, yeah." Imagine Ozzy having such insight. I titled this piece there is no privacy, because you’re giving it away. Stop believing in the ten percent off, that data will some day come back to haunt you. Big business lies. They tell you one thing and do another. Why beat around the bush, Enron a Texas company real close to a certain political figure we all know. How does it happen a CEO or high level executive steals hundreds of thousands of dollars even millions from a company and that well feed and bread gets small time. Some young kid from the Bronx does a stickup and gets 15 years. Justice, go figure as Miguel Pinero said it right justice, just us rich folk. The only privacy that exists is what big brother hides from us. I beg you to stop your ten percent cards and ask yourself what they really are in the long run. I’m a skip tracer I find people for a living, you're making my job too easy. Over the past twenty years doing what I do, I see no good coming out of data, it’s stored, sold, resold and reinvented into another use by some one some where. "War is peace, Freedom is slavery. And Big Brother is watching……….’ George Orwell By Frank M. Ahearn (perpetual traveler) www.frankahearn.com [Editors Note: To the person posting these articles. Please contact editor(at)vivelecanada.ca. They are directly off the website mentioned and dissapear.info, and should be posted with permission of the author. Thanks Dr. Caleb.]

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  1. Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:07 am
    Well this article is interesting and I think we discussed something similar on another post; but I just remembered buying something at a store, paying cash and the cashier needed my name, phone and address before they could process the sale. This was before I was aware of the world, it was the first time it happened and I asked why they needed the info, oh, it's just the way our cash register works, or something equally as lame. I handed over my info that day, but don't anymore. You want the sale, here is the cash if not fine, another store will do.

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    If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

  2. Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:48 pm
    Things aren't always as they seem, skimmed milk masquerades as cream.

  3. Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:57 pm
    It's no different for club cards, air miles etc. You've already given them your name, you show the card and they know what you've purchased.<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />
    "The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato

  4. by hoopoe
    Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:21 pm
    Yeah, I think I gave my postal code the first time I was asked because they said it in such a way that it sounded like they wouldn't sell me their goods if I didn't get. However, after that I simply said I didn't give that info out and of course the cashier just said okay.

    As far as the club cards go, unless you are trying to hide from someone, I don't see any reason to pay 10% more by not signing up for them. The info is used to target their advertising and generally I'm not influenced much by advertising. Still, if I rather do without them if I could still get the lower price.



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