One thing that I thought was shocking is that this one lady is telling Marcus and his classmates that it's ok to suspend the Bill of Rights... those are supposed to be our UNALIENABLE rights. We are always supposed to be protected by those no matter what, and this Charles kid that gives this lady ideas of when they should be taken away is really pissing me off. He should be supporting his rights not siding with the government on such a crazy idea as losing those rights.

I don't get why the government sent this lady to talk to them about it either. I guess they're trying to justify what they're going to do or have already done but kids can be very vulnerable when it comes to their rights and what they can and can't do. Like if you tell a little kid that he can't hit people he knows he shouldn't hit people, but if you tell that kid to not eat cereal, the kid might think that's wrong too even though there is nothing wrong with that. People might think that it's ok for the government to take those rights away, which it isn't.

This has never happened to me and I don't think that ever will, hopefully. I just can't imagine a situation where the government would ever have to do that. If that did happen I would be so angry, that is just not ok to do. The government has no right to do that to its people and it really shouldn't have to. There shouldn't be a time when the people are suspected so much as to where the government has to take away rights in order to find potential terrorists or whatever.

Little Brother is a good book but I can't tell where the plot is going, it seems like Doctorow is just going on and on about how Marcus and his friends are screwing with the system and that they're not going to take down the DHS. I can only read like 20 or 30 pages in a row now because I can't see it going anywhere anytime soon, I hope it does but I don't want to wait too long. I think it sucks that the DHS is stepping up security even more, that really isn't even going to help anything, it's just going to cause more chaos and prove that the DHS doesn't know what it's doing.

A quote that I thought was good was this, "Then one cop stood up and started shouting EVERYONE JUST GO HOME JESUS CHRIST WE'VE GOT BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN BOTHER YOU WITH MORE QUESTIONS IF YOU'VE DONE SOMETHING WRONG JUST DON'T DO IT AGAIN AND LET THIS BE A WARNING TO YOU ALL." I think it just goes to show that even the cops are getting stressed out about this situation, I mean who wouldn't? They're questioning just about everybody in San Francisco which is really going to piss some people off.

I would hate for this to ever happen in my lifetime, I would not be able to deal with the constant accusations of being a terrorist or whatever. I would just get sick of it, the government should not have to do that in order to keep control of its people. It's great that they're trying to catch the terrorists but they're putting way too much money and manpower into it, try to be more precise and not just send a billion cops to try and find one or two terrorists.

Little Brother is really starting to get confusing, there's a lot of computer mumbo jumbo that I can't really follow. They're talking about arphid cloners and Xnet stuff that I really don't understand, other than that it's a really good book. Lots of complex stuff going on like Marcus is going to try to bring down the Department of Homeland Security which is pretty crazy. I mean, kids my age are going to bring down the government by themselves without any help from adults, that's awesome.

A part that kind of freaked me out is the concept of police pulling over so many people for no real reason. I can't imagine something like that ever happening, it's just too outlandish to even consider. I would be so paranoid if something like that happened, I would be afraid to go outside for fear of being pulled over and taken to jail. Crazy things going on in that book, I hope that Marcus takes down the DHS.

This doesn't really relate to anything that has ever happened to me in my life, thank goodness. The closest thing that's happened is when police were driving around a Holiday Inn at a soccer tournament we were at and a friend of mine got taken in by them. It was actually really funny because it was the last person we would have thought would ever be in a cop car. Hilarious, everybody else got away but him, he was freaked out too, good times, good times.

This such a great book, just the way that it is formatted and how everything is explained makes me not want to put it down. It really makes me think too, I've been starting to wonder if this would ever actually happen where the government would get way out of hand and spy on everybody all the time. It kind of freaks me out thinking about it. A quote that I thought was pretty incredible is this, ""The security," he said, looking around his little shop with its
tubs of dried beans and seeds, its shelves of Turkish groceries. "The government. They monitor it all now, it was in the papers. PATRIOT Act II, the Congress passed it yesterday. Now they can
monitor every time you use your card. I say no. I say my shop will not help them spy on my customers."".

This really struck me as odd, I mean, a huge terrorist attack just happened just a few blocks away from this guy's store and he's mad at the government for tightening security and spying on people. I respect this guy for that, he seems like a legit guy that believes in freedom for everyone and will do his best to make sure everybody gets it. I'm just surprised at how quickly this guy made up his mind that he was going to help out the citizens after such a catastrophe.

Nothing like this has ever happened to me really but I hope it does. I want to know that I'm doing what's best for the people that I interact with and that I'm not just leaving them up to dry for the government to look at where they've been and such. I don't think it will ever get as extreme as that but you never know. Again, it's a terrific book and I'm looking forward to figuring out what Marcus is going to do about it.