Re: I was recovering to represent you some of my happy worships.

site and even though it's less
> than half of my current income, I'll finally be able to devote myself
> full-time to the business. Yeah!
>
> F*** that would be awesome (pardon my language).


Remember the person the FBI was investigating for theft of Risk Management
source code? His manager told him and all the other employees in their
group that their email was being monitored. The manager told both me, Salomon
Legal, and the U.S. Attorney and the two FBI agents this.

Go figure.

I call this Internet-is-irresistible siren call: "Internet Fever".


When it comes to ECHELON, it was never discussed with the American people.

We never had a chance to vote on it.

It was done in secret.

It is done in secret.

When you lift up the phone, you don't hear a message warning you
that the NSA is monitoring it.

But they are.

"Anytime, anywhere" is their motto.



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On Being Monitored
-- ----- ---------

On being black.

African-Americans are a heavily monitored group.

* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* Even while Lyndon Johnson fought for far-reaching civil rights
* legislation and spoke out against racism and government eavesdropping,
* the Johnson White House created a special squad of FBI agents to place
* wiretaps and bugs on most of the African Americans who came to Atlantic
* City during the