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^^ "On Tuesday last week someone hacked into and shut down my Web Site, which had been receiving thousands of page hits a day. It was frightening and surprising, though in retrospect I should have anticipated it. As with the police brutality, I had previously been familiar with the government’s abuse of surveillance power in the aftermath of 9/11. The Patriot Act allows them to spy on us and do what they like with full impunity. And the surveillance state, much like the military apparatus, is dominated by private, mercenary corporate contractors. But it’s one thing to read about someone else’s brush up with the police state; it’s another to experience it yourself."