He’s finally arrived. No fanfare. No press interviews. No gathering of friends and family. And although he’s been travelling for many years to get here, and many knowledgeable people have alerted us of his coming in their novels and movies, we haven’t believed he would ever visit us. Not us! We’re the most free, most friendly, most peaceful, democracy-loving people on planet Earth. He couldn’t possibly visit us, no less set up operations here.

He knows he’s not welcome. Or at least, until recently, it was taken for granted he wasn’t welcome. But we have been naively mistaken. Big Brother is here, embedded in the very fabric of the American System.

He’s everywhere, and knows almost everything there is to know about us. Each and every one of us. He knows where we live and how much we owe on the mortgage. He knows what we drive and how much into debt we’re willing to go to drive it. He knows what we eat, what we drink, and what we wear. He knows if we’re healthy or sick, and what our illnesses are. And thanks to the miracle of electronics and the marvel called the "Internet," he now knows many of our most intimate and personal secrets, for we innocently and foolishly give them to him.

His spys are everywhere. He has government spy agencies, military spy agencies, private spy agencies, and spy agencies within spy agencies. All spying upon us, detailing our individual strengths and weaknesses, determining the level of threat we might make to his reign. And now that he has established control of the American System, he and his cohorts are in the process of creating a global surveillance network to spy upon all citizens of planet Earth.

In 1949, British author, George Orwell in his book titled, 1984, warned working commoners of the dangerous consequences of electronic surveillance. He warned of the oppressive society that would follow. Working American commoners naively chuckled at the thought, and went on their merry way.

Today, not only do we have "official" surveillance cameras in banks and government buildings, but they’re on key traffic intersections; in sports arenas, and in public schools spying upon our children. Soon our political leaders will give us their reasons for putting these electronic spies everywhere else, and we will docilely allow it. With the easy availabiity of surveillance gadgets in local "spy stores," we private citizens are being enticed into spying on our neighbors. And when that neighbor commits an act Big Brother has labeled a “crime,” which one of us righteous citizens will turn our neighbor in to the authorities? Which one of us would dare not?

How pervasive is spying? Once upon a time, within the Los Angeles Police Department, there was a secret agency called the “Organized Crime Intelligence Committee” (OCID). The agency used high tech electronics to illegally spy on movie stars and political figures. Were these public figures suspected of criminal activity? No. The law enforcement people merely wanted to know about the private, sexual lives of important people.

In 1994, after three years of fear tactics and political pressure, the FBI was successful in having a bill passed requiring all future telephone hardware to be designed with "wiretap ready" features allowing law enforcement agents to eavesdrop on any phone in the country—without the subject’s awareness.

Newspapers recently reported Big Brother’s new surveillance system called "'Echelon." It’s a system with the capability of intercepting 3 billion messages every day. 3 billion! This includes phone calls, fax messages, satellite transmissions, e-mail and other internet transmissions. Presumably, the Echelon Network is administered by the spy agencies of the United States, England, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. But who regulates and controls these spy agencies and why must they spy?

These examples are direct assaults upon the First Amendment to our constitution which guarantee common Americans that there will be no law abridging freedom of speech or the press. How many of us will say the things we normally say to friends by phone or fax, if we know conversations are no longer private?

Historically, spy agencies have been the mark of totalitarian governments: dictatorships and monarchies, not free and open social systems claiming to be democratic. They’ve been the defensive techniques of people afraid of losing their power; people who wish to know what their enemies, or potential enemies, are planning.

The most important question we common working Americans should be asking is, "can we truly be a free people if some Americans possess the power and legal authority to spy upon the rest of us?" Add that to the other questions we should have been asking ourselves for many years, "can we truly be a free people, if only some Americans have the power to say what is, or what isn’t, a crime?" "Can we really be a free people, if only some Americans have the power to send the rest of us off to die in wars which they start—and which we believe wrong—and to which we don’t want to go?"

If you don’t believe there’s anything wrong with these sneaky intrusions into your private life, that they are merely additional necessary steps the government is taking to "protect the safety of American citizens," then think about these facts also. There’s a greater proportion of American citizens labeled "criminals" than citizens of any other nation on Earth. There are more American citizens behind bars than are citizens of all European countries combined. There are more prisons being built in the United States—at a more frantic pace—than in all other countries of Earth combined.

Put these truths together, and what kind of picture of the great American System do you see? Can you really believe that Americans are more prone to criminal activity than any other Earth people? Can you really believe that what we need in this country is more prisons? More executions? Greater police authority? Perhaps more weapons out on the street?

Doesn’t it make you wonder what the people who control the country are really like? What their goals and objectives really are? It should!

And then let’s be sue to give him our active support against the two political machines to guarantee his vision of a fairer country be given a fair chance to become reality. Let’s see if we can drive Big Brother out of our lives!