Monitoring To Become Normality

An article written by Mark Berniker for internetnews.com provides some scary insight to President Bush’s new plan to make internet service providers monitor and track their own users. Berniker states “Experts say the Bush administration wants to create an "early warning center," which would give it the power to monitor any aspect of Internet use in the U.S.” He goes onto explain that it’s not known what exactly ISPS will be responsible for.

It looks like this is going to take another piece of bad legislation full of loopholes to make this system legal, so along with the Patriots Act of 2002, the Computer Security enhancement act of 2002, and the Homeland security act of 2002, Americans abroad will undoubtedly loose even more of the privacy they seem so oblivious they have. This wouldn’t be so scary if people were crying out for violation to their civil rights, but their not. Most Americans consider it a good thing to be watched, the mentality being “well, I didn’t do anything wrong, what do I can if some one can monitor my internet connection, tap my phone, and be under 24 hour surveillance ECT….

Theoretical question; what happens when their aren’t any more terrorist to watch? Does the American public become the target of all the system that are being so carefully crafted and implemented? How do we as Americans stop this when it gets out of hand? How will we know when it’s out of hand (we won’t know were being surveyed). Comments and email always welcome