Practicalmadness

According to Plastic, soon your mailman (or rather, letter carrier) could be informing on your suspicious activities to federal authorities, in addition to just reporting your spending habits and monthly utility bills to marketers as he or she does now. The U.S. plans to recruit 1 in 24 Americans as 'citizen spies' in the war on terrorism, a move which some activists are already comparing to good old East German fascism, but which sounds more like just a really, really, really big neighborhood watch where some neighbors can lock you away forever if you don't name names. I mention this story not only because it's interesting, but because it's on Plastic and as a blogger I feel an unexplainable innate need to link to Plastic. Often. Again. And again. And again.