channeling one nine hundred eighty four not as in a literal year but is in george orwell's just hope you envision a society constantly watched by did rather well to chicago first as the most americans associate with barack obama's hometown and those tears of victory three years ago but these days the city is also becoming known as the absolute record holder of surveillance cameras in the u.s. our chief anastasio going to travels under the lens to discover what this watch means for the future of privacy in america. welcome to chicago the most watched city in the u.s. from all spooled blue light cameras to cameras with state of the art technical capabilities watchful lenses fill the streets in what has been dubbed operation virtual shield thousands of public and privately owned security cameras have been put in place and linked together creating a capsule of surveillance over the entire city more extensive than anywhere else in the united states the number is estimated at up to ten thousand the networks cost around sixty million dollars officials say it's worth the price of privacy con

this in the legislature where it can't be you know it you it we takes a declaration of war and george orwell of course said that when war becomes literally continuous this is a nine hundred eighty four in his book it also ceases to be dangerous when war is continuous it eats up the surplus of consumable goods and it helps to prefer preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society means this is the idea of perpetual war you'll recall from one thousand nine hundred four george orwell you know the famous saying of big brother. that paymah saying actually here's george w. bush saying something very much like. we talk about. it war is peace big brother's famous statement from one nine hundred eighty four it's time for us to a say no more wars that a congressional declaration of war congressional declaration of war we haven't had one since world war two and b. we're going to stop the ones that were already here. crazy alert all the republicans are thanking george w. bush for killing osama bin laden average americans are instead turning their thanks to another man who had to be be

great picture of heaven and hell and the afterlife, you have now in novel form done sort of a george orwellhe world in 2030. >> i tried to write what i really thought could happen, because most future stuff, nothing comes true. you know, i mean, when i was a kid, i read about the flying cars. >> jon: sure. >> come on, jon. you ever see jews drive in miami? you think they're going to be flying in the air? beep, beep, what is that? it's just shut up. >> jon: is that the most fun part of doing this? what i love about the book is every little thing that you see sort of as an eccentricity in modern society today you extrapolate and you create these great... the main conflict of this is the old versus sort of the younger generation. >> yes, i feel and i can see it in my own children that in a number of years these younger people are going to try to kill us. [laughter] >> you know, it's... >> jon: when you see that in your own children... >> it's something i sense. i made that movie "real life," and i was right about reality television, don't screw with me. >> jon: if you ever get to see "real lif

there is a very good quote from george orwell once wrote that who controls the present controls the past and who controls the past controls the future do you agree that people in power or governments the presidents always want to grab history and to control the history of their country and maybe the world. to go to and vote a go for thirty is that the extent to which people of different countries which includes in europe and england. the poor countries which know best is. fundamentally this stereotype of. defiance of what is happening there's a why are we trying to get support get money get funding get the standing from governments when we when we explore this we shouldn't shouldn't the word the work of historians be there be considered as destructive anti governmental or. you think this is some two for one of it's not that people will stop talking least they will simply get even worse information of even worse a deal of these happen. what is happening today not so this is develop of the stern is you useful because it gives a small. is independent and independent historian something that

there is a very good quote from george orwell once wrote that who controls the present controls the past and who controls the past controls the future do you agree that people in power governments the presidents will always want to grab history and to control the history of their country and made author of the world no doubt about that and what a dull for fact is the extent to the church people you know of the different countries which includes in your russia and england. two countries written know best is. fundamentally this very powerful. defiance of what is happening there's a why are we trying to get support get money get funding get the standing from governments when we when we explore this we shouldn't shouldn't the word the word of historians be considered as destructive anti government or. you know this is some two for one of it's not that people will stop talking easter they will simply get even the worse information of the event versus a deal of these should happen then. what is happening at the moment. discerns vocal his turn is you useful because it gives a small. is independ

to be so mean as chicago increasingly resembles the chilling and tell you to be i described a george orwell's legendary novel nineteen eighty-four where every word action. and even thought it was monitored by big brother. and. the only thing that's missing. advise us on how to live our lives while the structure of surveillance grows so do the fears of americans it creeps me out i don't like it when you fully appreciate the scale of what is being put in place in chicago and then imagine a. more repressive city government or more repressive regime it could be incredibly interesting christian was an artist arrested for selling one dollar prints on the streets he filmed his arrest and as a result class won for the role of camp the murder and that's fifteen years that's up to fifteen years in the state prison this is totally crazy as officials cower to report people's movements expands the power of the people to do the same is being squashed when they hook all these things up and are able to follow people all around the city and at the same calendar telling us that we can't even gather the informa

our attention to george orwell thousands of opposition supporters have protested against the government for four days straight but in order to state sanctioned corruption and the resignation of president mikhail saakashvili they are accused of abusing his position to maintain power. all the details from streets. nancy government is continuing that the station's cooling the president is back in. town you can be the person. listening to this is being held by. the democrats. the people's assembly now what we saw at the beginning of the case of the weekend with thousands of them is faith is putting out some people calling it the still the revolution there was an older generation of people who felt that they were really struggling at fighting the fight. and the opposition party. they call it on seven krasik authoritarian system now we've come together and what they said was that they were planning when they did big it's a range but they bowed out president saakashvili now we see with the demonstration this undercurrents of disorganization if when the opposition party says that to the time an

thank you john and george orwell's book one thousand nine hundred four big brother famously said war is peace and george w. bush took this to heart when he started the war on terror literally take a look at that infamous orwellian bush ism. and we talk about really talking about that. but the truth is there's nothing worse for a nation and was war as james madison our fourth president of the constitution said no nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of perpetual war. it's wednesday which means it's time for the lone liberal wrong before i take on two of the city's most savvy conservative political commentators to debate the week's biggest issues on our panel tonight heather sermon and service strategist and managing owner of the for forty group public relations and amanda carey reporter with the daily caller either amanda welcome welcome to the world to be here to see you both. let's start right off newt gingrich has officially joined the two thousand and twelve republican race for the presidency though he's entering the race of quite a lot of baggage is currently on his third

civilian lives my gosh i should get a second nobel peace prize for conducting more i mean truly george orwell has now reached its peak of the hackers in describing mr obama and in some sense because obama is a law professor he does teach const you are headed it demonstrates the pervasiveness and the strength of this culture of dominance and empire which overrides even someone as area diet is mr obama in complying and scrupulous regard for the constitution it doesn't matter power trumps everything so how long is it going to take for the sixty days or our congress hasn't done anything about it yet in the meantime obama isn't asking congress to approve any of these funds he's just taking it from the pentagon when are they going to be forced to actually make some kind of decision because you never just talked about this before the show to you it's very easy for members of congress to not have to vote on this because then they don't have to get their hands dirty they later can then you know and nobody can point a finger at them and say that you voted to support this conflict in libya if it ends up