The World of Privacy Does Not Exist
By
Frank M. Ahearn
I listen as people complain about identity theft and the
government telling us it's becoming an epidemic. Some states
have created point system of proving your identity in order to get a
driver's license. The government is doing their best to make
sure we are who we say we are. That thought scares me a whole lot;
then again I'm a long haired liberal. Some people find comfort in
believing a point system will potentially hinder terrorism. Or
stop those evil geniuses from stealing our identities. If identity theft
is such a problem how come the government hasn't made it easier for
someone to rectify their problem if it happens? Good luck calling
a credit bureau all you get is a recording.
I know my share of people who drive with out a license and I
wonder if a terrorist would call of his act of terrorism if he can't
meet the six point tier system in the state of New Jersey for a
license. Personally I am starting to notice a trend and its making
me nervous. We are made to solidify who we are in order to get our
proper papers. Wasn't there a term, papers please spoken by guys
kicking their feet high, walking like geese? The scariest part is
was less then a hundred years ago.
Most people who know me consider me way too left and I only try to
explain to them I don't believe everything I read or hear in the
news. Those are profit making corporations that have an obligation
to share holders before the people they report to. Back to
identity theft, why is it every time you walk into a store you are
offered to sign up for a discount card for ten percent off. Let's get
real people, they're tracking your data and making you a better
consumer.
Anybody who wants information on you is going to get it from your
local book store or video store. I guarantee they have your home
address and phone number on file. We know for a fact that the
video store has your credit card on file. How come the government
doesn't crack down or regulate the information that big business
collects from its consumers? Big business is the evil twin to big
brother. One of the brothers is making sure we register ourselves
properly and make sure we are who we say we are. The other brother
is offering us ten percent off products so we give them all our
information for a database. The two brothers got to be up to no
good if you ask me.
Perhaps I'm going through a stage in my life where I'm becoming a
conspiracy theorist. What's more likely is I am becoming older and
more aware. I just finished reading a book about Napoleon
Bonaparte as he grew in power and became Emperor. His brother Joseph
Bonaparte was King of Naples and Luis King of Holland, certainly not a
democracy. Here in the United States George Bush was Vice
President and President. Both of his sons were Governors, one now
President and the other still governor. Excuse me but where is the
Democratic process?
On the other side of the political table we have Kerry; I can't seem
to figure him out. However, her certainly married well. When
does the American public wake up and vote for some person man, woman,
and black, Chinese, Jew, Spanish or Muslim that can just do the
job. The presidential race is turning into a trash throwing
contest, why don't they just mail us their resumes shut up and let us
decide. Dump the electoral vote and let the people speak for once.
It's amazing we are bright enough to go work forty hours a week but we
have to pay some one to do our taxes.
Big brother is watching you, the caption beneath it ran. However big
brother is not listening to you. They don't hear the cries of
young black mothers to bring their sons home from a war they believe is
being fought over oil. Black Sabbath said it best
"Politicians hide themselves away, they only started the war, why
should they go out to fight? They leave their role to the poor,
yeah." Imagine Ozzy having such insight.
I titled this piece there is no privacy, because you're giving it
away. Stop believing in the ten percent off, that data will some
day come back to haunt you. Big business lies. They tell you one
thing and do another. Why beat around the bush, Enron a Texas company
real close to a certain political figure we all know. How does it happen
a CEO or high level executive steals hundreds of thousands of dollars
even millions from a company and that well feed and bread gets
small time. Some young kid from the Bronx does a stickup and gets
15 years. Justice, go figure as Miguel Pinero said it right justice,
just us rich folk.
The only privacy that exists is what big brother hides from us. I
beg you to stop your ten percent cards and ask yourself what they really
are in the long run. I'm a skip tracer I find people for a
living, you're making my job too easy. Over the past twenty years doing
what I do, I see no good coming out of data, it's stored, sold, resold
and reinvented into another use by some one some where.
"War is peace, Freedom is slavery. And Big Brother is watching""".'
George Orwell
