: : What's so troubling? �I'll sleep better knowing the government isn't fighting with its hands tied behind its back. �Do you have something to hide? �What are you really afraid of?

: I can't speak for Andrea, but me, I'm afraid of you, and everyone who's either forgotten or never learned their history. �He who would sacrifice his freedom for security deserves neither, as Ben Franklin so succinctly put it.

: Yours in Orwell,

: Goldstein

My apologies for the above, a kneejerk reaction to what I experienced as an echo of Joe McCarthy. In amends, may I offer you a brilliant piece by David Lyon on both Orwell and Jeremy Bentham, the inventor of the Panopticon, among many other things.  

Peace,

David

http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/Lyon.html