Clock to tick down U.S. privacy

A "Surveillance Society Clock" created by the American Civil Liberties Union will symbolize the encroachment of government spying on private citizens as part of the war against terrorism and the ticktock is fast approaching midnight.{{{"The extinction of privacy is a real possibility,"}}}(1)said Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Project.{{{"We believe that privacy is not yet dead-it is a patient on life support."}}}(2)The online clock is patterned after the "Doomsday Clock," created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947 to warn against a nuclear holocaust. Midnight symbolized a total "1984"-style "surveillance society.""Every generation deserves its own clock,"Mr. Steinhardt said in a teleconference yesterday announcing the project and a new report on mass surveillance by the government.He said that an explosive increase in new technology and data mining is fueling the trend and creating a false sense of security-from satellites to national-identity systems, the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program, DNA data-banking and Web search engines that store every query, even satellites."The false security of a surveillance society threatens to turn our country into a place where individuals are constantly susceptible to being trapped by data errors or misinterpretations, illegal use of information by rogue government workers, abuses by political leaders-or perhaps most insidiously, expanded legal uses of information for all kinds of new purposes," the report says.{{{"We are far too close to the midnight of a genuine surveillance society, and the second hand has not stopped sweeping around the dial,"}}}(3) the report says.The "surveillance" clock, a digital display viewable from the ACLU's Web site, is now set at six minutes before midnight. The ACLU says it will be updated as events warrant moving the time closer or further away from a "surveillance society."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070918/NATION/109180049/1002
PS:IF there is ONE THING that the ACLU DOESN'T fight for is "CIVIL LIBERTIES"This bunch of "God haters" have just "Discovered America"....!!!!WOW.....We are UNDER SURVEILLANCE.....!!!!ta dah......!!!!!!
(1)"The extinction of privacy is a real possibility":It's amazing that it took them several decades to figure that one out!!!!!
PRIVACY is being gone for decades....but the ACLU here is serving the citizens again by letting them now what they JUST FOUND OUT!!!!!!Amazing....!!!!!
(2)The statement between brackets on 2 is already explained above....
(3)We are PAST MIDNIGHT.....!!!!We are on borrowed time.....
IF this bunch would repent of their sins and turn to God and read His Word they would find out many mnay things that are hidden from the "natural man"as it is said in the Bible....cause they are "madness" to them...
The ACLU is being hating and fighting against christians for way a long time and amazingly christians are the ones that have been aware of the times we are living on,for ages....Jesus himself said that they were then "in the last days".....
The last days started with the arrival of Jesus to earth...
We are now in borrowed time and events are unfolding at an amazing speed towards His Coming that will be as He said it would....
Thank you ACLU....but once more you are LATE....
As in the days of Noah....