Change that to further suspending the Constitution. Assuming there is any of it left. Whoops Sorry. I forgot All that's left - is left.

Who controls the system and how do they control it? The Chinese are asking the same question. Of course they are moving from a form of left wing fascist socialism to a system of combining the best of capitalism an economic system with the best of shall we say having some measure of social conscience. The difficulty is in finding a center and deciding how far i,n any direction is permisable.

The USA on the other hand is moving in the other direction having left the center, the sacred ground as St. James of Carville put it to the Democrats one time, and become not an information but a communications based economy with no base other than the ability to print or create money and devalue even the most outlandish spendthrift debts. Devalue is a good as paying the debt in the financial scheme of things.

Last time I was in China the streets were full of people all with cell radio phones and most with laptops.To some it was still a very strange notion. A Pandora's box. But they didn't mind discussing it and were curious how about us and our bankrupt every ten years system.

No problem so was I and still am.

Control however is an almost mechanical thing if you, for example, have access to the wiring, the transmitter receivers, and the control systems. Question is do they want control of the system and will they control the system or use it as a way of being able to apprehend anybody at anytime given there are so many laws one cannot wake up and breathe without having committed a felony.

Second objective is a clandestine system of communication. Remember in one movie Air Force One I think they used the old morse code frequencies to defeat the aliens. --. ....he ..-. -. --- - and I may be rusty. or have friends in the right places that can hook you into a present system in the manner of the WWII OSS teams and their counterparts in the resistance movements. Without doubt the idea of private in homes and papers is a dead duck, yet another casualty of 911 and the terrorists who won that round. On the other hand some of us are old enough to really not give a damn except to never support the Government Party in either of it's two forms.

None of that group have earned the right to claim my allegiance which still goes to the Constitution.

I suppose it goes to how much importance is attached on attracting votes for their sham candidates in an effort to flim flam most of the people one more time. They are insecure enough to begin building a protective echelon but arrogant enough to still goad their present security forces.

Hard to say.