Big Brother always watching

THE EDITOR: You did a masterly editorial on electronic invasion of our privacy in “Question of Privacy” Tuesday 343. This spying has been going on for a number of years in TT — the question to ask Wade Mark should be “what did the UNC do about this spying when the UNC was in power and Mr Panday was Minister of National Security?” The $61 million expenditure is only an upgrade of a system already in place not only are cell phones spied on, even your ordinary telephone on your desk is spied on electronically.

“Big Brother is watching you” is no joke.

You, Ms Donna Yawching and others attack the US every day about the war in Iraq. Did it ever occur to you that the US and Iraq and every other country and every other person on this earth are pawns of the Gods? Some cynic once said “The Gods play games with us and when they tire of us they kill us.” God says “I raise people up and I destroy them to show man my power.” Just as earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes and the other destructive forces of nature constantly reshape the landscape of the continents, so too do wars, famines, riots etc reshape the political and cultural landscape of peoples. We have had “Pax Romana” - “Pax Britannica” and now we are having “Pax Americanus”. These gigantic upheavals are not of our making. We suffer through them and grow and change. C’est la vie.

PHILIP SAMUEL
Carenage