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• Monday, December 31, 2007 06:32 AM

  Bloomberg, Rudy and Big Brother

  Bloomberg is basically just Rudy Giuliani with a billion or two dollars to spend to alter the election.

  Today over at Front Page, Rudy lays out the steps that we need to take in order to become a “resilient society” including programs called Borderstat, Terrorstat, and Readystat, which have more than an Orwellian ring to them, as does the entire article. It might as well be called “learning to love Big Brother.”

  He lays out a basis for our entire society to live in constant fear except for one sentence in the last paragraph where he says that we will declare “our right to live in freedom of fear.”

  There is no mention of any other rights that Americans have. And sadly, it appears that the only way to get to the point where we don’t live in fear is to live in constant fear.

  War is peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

  And now, Freedom of Fear is Fear of Freedom. Or something like that.

  Is this the type of society that Bloomberg is on his way to promoting? If it is -- if it's just Rudy's views with a "softer tone" -- then it is a society that we definitely need to fear.

  http://tinyurl.com/2rofur

  —_zack_ Read _zack_'s other letters
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