Big brother is watching you!


In fact it wants to watch all of us and it wants to use Google and the other search engines to do it for them.
As if things weren't sinister enough with the right wing, religious underbelly of US politics today, the government have been trying to force Google, the search engine leaders, to divulge its search engine data including search criteria which in turn will give them access to personal web data on as many as three million individuals (to start with) on the pretext that it will help them fight terrorism and pornography. However, good on Google for resisting where others have capitulated. Long may they do so.


So what's the problem with pornography - apart from the obvious deviant areas of sexual expression - what's the deal? Even George Bush has had a fuck from time to time. He has two party loving daughters which prove it. George may even have done it sober once or twice.


Pornography may be frowned upon by the religious right, the bible bashers and evangelist preachers - from the back seats of their limos - though they clearly welcome death, destruction and torture in the name of their God. Strange that eh? The word hypocrisy leaps to mind. Sex is the most primeval of instincts in all creatures and is a biological foundation stone. To reproduce is the paramount instinct in all creatures. Is there any wonder then, that humans are drawn to it in all its forms. In humans it has also become recreational - well in most countries - as much pleasure can be derived from it. So one man's perversion is another man's or woman's turn on. That's how it goes. Is that wrong? Apparently!

Follow up:

The process of procreation is pornographic and stimulating not to say pleasurable, so one can hardly avoid it. The issue here seems to be whether or not one enjoyed it. If you enjoyed it, it was either disgusting of you or plain pornography. If you didn't it was either instinctive conjoining, duty, or rape. If you don't enjoy sex, you need a psychologist to help you get over it. If you do enjoy it, keep it to yourself lest you burn in hell! If you watched others doing it, you must be turned on by it or perverse to want to. If they watched you doing it, you're either an exhibitionist or sick to want to let anyone watch you doing it. If you're a soldier killing and maiming and wiping out in the name of the lord or the C in C, that's alright. So there's collateral damage along the way. It's part of god's plan, we are told. Actually, what plan is that? An interesting plan that allows innocent children to be butchered and maimed along the way. Please tell me what part of the great plan that is 'cos I don't get it! And please explain why pornography is therefore so wrong. If looking at images of sex is pornography, what the hell is looking at news images of butchered children and innocent people?


In fact, what the US government want... that is the government of the land of the brave and home of the free, the government who so quickly tell us that freedom in the west is everything... is to spy on those of us who are free so that they can stop us doing anything in particular that they don't like us doing, thereby curtailing freedom and imposing on us - by a small number of evangelical politicians that is - imposing on us, their will. Terrorism pornography and/or child pornography are the levers, the rest comes after and gets about as sinister as was the apalling McCarthy era. It is a blatant major leap in controlling the people and will at the least result in censorship of the internet. Now hang on. Doesn't that amount to dictatorship? Just the thing they were trying to convince us was wrong with Iraq.


Now with the ability to whip up public fears over terrorism, they know that the public will swallow anything with the right spin. Terrify the people first with lurid tales and unfounded fears. Then they'll accept anything the government says is in their interests. There's something rotten in the state of Denmark. The US isn't looking too healthy either as its current secretive government grows more sinister by the hour!