so i just added this link to the righthand column called the new american century. it is crazy. the front page is a letter by some folks about what the US should do. it's dated 1997. they say some pretty intense stuff. i have not yet had a chance to look through the entire site. what are those labels of all the parts of the world about anyway? then, see who it's signed by. whoa boy. written in 1997---weird.

this reminds me. this page your reading now hasn't ever been viewed by anyone besides me i don't think. so right now, it continues to exist as a sort of personal diary for all to see. like the guy taking a shit in the stall with no door on it, i continue to go about my business here regardless of if anyone's looking. but now i have stumbled upon some pretty intense info (see prior paragraph) and i wonder if a few people did see this and spoke about it a bit and some not so nice people started paying attention to the crap i write. then all of a sudden i am gone. you don't know what happened for sure. does that sort of thing really happen? could all of this patriot act induced fear actually result in some catastrophic loss of personal freedoms? it's hard to imagine that those people sued by the record industry for sharing songs on their home computer or the military reservist killed in post-war iraq or me sitting here typing up links that share the info they don't want you to know--that any of us could see it coming. surprise surprise. you're in court or your in the desert or your monitored--not like the movies, for real this time--or you disappear.

ever hear about the kid who had a weblog and was killed and then his family and friends began using his posthumous blog as a place to share feelings? that really happened.

another thing i was thinking about is the paradoxical nature of information access today. we live in an age when our personal access to info is overwelming. tv listings, music, television, newspapers, books, cell phones, magazines, blogs, and on and on and on. yet we believe that there exists a network of power behind the scenes that controls it all. the only thing is they're not behind the scenes. you can go to many many websites that state flatout the intentions of many folks. you can see how the heads of governments, their administrations, media personalities and moguls, and industry leaders are intertwined. in fact, many are players in multiple areas. what bush administration official doesn't have some vested in some company out there somewhere? it makes no sense for them not too. everybody's got some vested interest out there somewhere. i'm not denying that. i'm asking that we admit that it's an obvious truth and that certain steps have to be taken to protect government officials from the termptation of acting in their own best interests, not the best interests of americans as a whole. anyway.

it's all just ones and zeros in the end.