Big Brother is Watching You

I remember learning this phrase to mean that the government is watching you. I looked it up on wikipedia and they said this:

Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the enigmatic dictator of Oceania, a totalitarian state taken to its utmost logical consequence – where the ruling elite (‘the Party’) wield total power for its own sake over the inhabitants.

In the society that Orwell describes, everyone is under complete surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens. The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase “Big Brother is watching you”, which is the core “truth” of the propaganda system in this state. Big Brother’s physical characteristics are intended to resemble Joseph Stalin[citation needed], although in the film his moustache more closely resembles Adolf Hitler’s.

Which everyone laughed and talked about how that is not the USA. We are getting much closer to that than you can possibly believe. My mom called me about a news show she watched late last night. It mentioned how the government was asking people to send information on getting ‘fishy emails about health care’. I thought she was joking with me. I told her I would look it up. This is a quote from our WHITEHOUSE Government site:

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

Now this is under the guise of we just want to stop ‘disinformation’. Doesn’t this sound familiar to you yet? If you really want to stop the disinformation then use the same tools to send out the right information. If that is not enough, use some of that money you seem to have tons of and have the President give a ‘Fire Side Chat’. Make sure that you get it on all major networks, and advertise that he is going to give out facts about the health care.

Do NOT ask me to turn in my neighbors and friends. Basically that is what you are requesting when you want me to send you information about emails I receive. Have you no memory of history? Don’t you remember reading about how in Nazi Germany people were encouraged to ‘turn in their neighbor’. Or Stalin with his style of communism? You are saying to yourself it is not the same. But how did it start? We remember the worst of history… did it start as something as simple as this? Where does it stop? And when?

While I have been worried about how much of a socialist government we have become, this new item scares me and what future my children will have. Stop this now. It is WRONG. I don’t have the answer at my finger tips, but I am open to suggestions. I am not sure if sending a ton of emails to that address complaining about the health care reform is the answer or getting a group together to fight it. I do NOT want us to start ‘turning in each other’. Not when there are so many other options available. Get the word out. Let’s make this wrong for our government to do in our country.