Putting one foot in front of the

Juana Carrasco Martín • juana@juventudrebelde.cu
August 24, 2013 22:18:52 CDT

The truth, pure and simple, is that it is one of the greatest abuses of power known in the history of humanity. Because spying is a bad or method enthroned since time immemorial to detect what the "enemy" may be doing, but it subjects all, ALL, to ongoing monitoring, building a society manipulated or controlled to the highest degree. It was something that was just laid-o avizorado-in imaginary demons as expressed in the novels and essays by Ray Bradbury or George Orwell.

Surveillance is also evidence of the fears, mistrust, prejudice, distrust and cowardice of the empire, hidden under its cloak of arrogance, to its domination and strength ... and for which it argues that it is protecting its citizens from the dangers of terrorism, when actually it subjects them to a world of total scrutiny, and a heaven of absolute control and espionage.

Earthlings, as in the story The Passerby (The Pedestrian) and Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, are destined to remain stuck at home, watching TV, embobecidos with their messages and now 'talking' with the next door neighbor by email or phone, and transferring digitized information that is supposedly more private than direct contact, expose their life, customs, thoughts and even more intimate performances.

The United States and its allies in the quest for a perfectly controlled planet, going by what O'Brien tells Winston Smith, the central character of George Orwell's novel 1984: "Winston, if you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamped forever on a human face. "

But that Orwellian world that seems to be becoming a fateful reality is rejected by those who have the ability to think, feel and live in search of a better one.

I'd say they have demonstrated Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, the U.S. Occupy movement, the indignados of Madrid, or the protesters in Egypt, Mexico or Colombia. They, and many more, just take a walk into the street and are subjected to the same personal experience that inspired The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury - by coincidence? In full McCarthyism-when he was arrested by police while walking late at night: "What are you doing? 'sly simplicity and the writer replied," putting one foot before the other "....

The United States fears that, as the criminal fiction-like universe they are creating, go for a walk without following the path that so far has been dictating. Much of that is dissatisfied citizens-always has been-in motion, to not have to write as does Winston in his secret diary: "April 4, 1984. The past or the future. At a time when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother (Big Brother), from the Age of Thought police, from a dead man ... greetings. "

It is a crucial battle of resistance to conformity and control over the individual exercised through technology and the mass media wielded bu the powerful. In the face of that line of thought and action recently expressed in an interview with CNN, by Mr. Barack Obama:

"I recognize that we will have to continue to improve safeguards and, as technology moves forward, that means we must be able to build technologies which give people more security, and we must do a better job to give people confidence in how these programs work. "

I was just talking about the surveillance programs, surveillance and control of the National Security Agency ... Big Brother entering the house of everyone.

To walk, therefore, day and night, putting one foot in front of the other ...

Putting one foot in front of the other