Surely "Big Brother was watching...." Were the subs asleep when they wrote this or did they leave this to a trainee?

Greg Palmer, Münster, Germany

The Civil Liberties of Britian are far different than American freedoms. In Britian, privacy laws are more forgiving to the government than to the individual. With that said, MI5 (British secret service) can and did investigatge almost everybody in England during the 1920's through the 1980's.

Mark Poliner, CHATSWORTH, CA

Could you explain what you are talking about, in English please?

Andy Pollock, Orlando, Florida

George Orwell was British and MI5 is British what has"anti-american as you can get" mean.
Theres a whole world out there you know!

peter, moreton in marsh, uk

"its invasion of privacy and as anti-american as you can get." john e. resler

MI5 is Brittish?

Galosh Bolidar, Okerham, Alabama

I have read all of Orwell's works, and the fact that he could possibly be interpreted as a communist is absolutely ludicrous. He wrote animal farm with the clear intention of creating a satire of soviet russia, and at the time its publication was nearly refused due to the fact that the British government found it too anti-Russian. The introduction to the animal farm is also a fascinating read, as he also showed how the propaganda model functions within a democarcy. His political views were highly sympethetic to anarchism, or libertarian socialism, and these views are entirely repellent to those of dictatorial communism. The suggestion that he was a communist is simply farce.

Joshua Reiniger, Bury St Edmund, England

wether you call it big brother,government, big business,patriot act,homeland security,or harris poll it doesn't matter its invasion of privacy and as anti-american as you can get. The watching and legislating of individual citizens is in direct opposition to what democracy is all about. Individual freedom and can not be tolerated ever. The founding fathers would throw a second tea party and demand a second but peaceful revolution. However, I truly doubt that that will happen at least not in the very near future because both major political parties have convinced the masses that revolution would be futile and so people will remain victim of their own fear of reprisal and not do what must be done. And it must be done now before we have the impending violent revolution that has been rumored for several years now.

john e. resler, middletown, USA / Ct.