<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;worldservice&#x2F;specials&#x2F;1020_ageofempire&#x2F;index.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;worldservice&#x2F;specials&#x2F;1020_ageofempire&#x2F;...</a><p>We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.<p>This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;EbenMoglen-WhyFreedomOfThoughtRequiresFreeMediaAndWhyFreeMedia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;EbenMoglen-WhyFreedomOfThoughtRe...</a><p>Surveillance is not an end toward totalitarianism, it is totalitarianism itself.