Hi Richard
I had a quick look at the index of just one of the linked pdf files below and thought it may be of interest to you and your readers. The file is dated 2004,2005 and runs to over 200 pages, but covers a lot of topics.
It appears to be the plans and system set up for the near future.
I wish it were science fiction, but suspect otherwise.
take care
H
(I was able to find more on Paye using the Yahoo search engine. What I
have noticed recently is that, whereas Google may show next to nothing
on certain topics, I am successful with other search engines.)
We are all familiar with insults to human rights such as the
wiretapping, or torture, conducted by the Bush administration. What
caught my interest in your comments on Paye is that he documented this
as a part of a larger pattern of abuses extending both temporally and
internationally and that he did this with the seriousness and rigor of
an academic. While Paye does this by an analysis of changes in the legal
system, it appears that this is just one aspect of a larger pattern. For
example, see the work of the International Campaign Against Mass
Surveillance (e.g., "The Emergence of a Global Structure for Mass
Registration and Surveillance":
http://www.hollings.org/Content/ICAMS-TheEmergenceOfAGlobalInfrastructureForMassRegistrationAndSurveillance.pdf ), or a study done by the European Union Parliament "An Appraisal of Technologies for Political Control" (
http://www.hollings.org/Content/EUParliament-AnAppraisalOfTechnologiesOfPoliticalControl.pdf ). Another interesting work, although lacking the rigor of the other studies, makes up for it in the comprehensiveness of its picture: Nield's "Police State Road Map" (
http://www.hollings.org/Content/Nield-PoliceStateRoadMap.pdf ). What comes out of this all seems to me an emerging new dark age that would return humanity to conditions before the Magna Carta. To those with an "accidentalist" view of history, I would ask how likely such a pattern of unpopular changes in disparate fields of law, registration, surveillance, political control, etc., could emerge simultaneously and within multiple countries, particularly given that many of these changes began before 9-11? More concretely, do we suppose that it just by accident that we got all the traffic cameras springing up simultaneously across the United States and the UK?
An extended review of Paye's "Global War on Liberty" is at
http://www.hollings.org/Content/Debrix-JeanClaudePaye%
27sGlobalWarOnLiberty.pdf .
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