Is The Total Information Awareness System A Product Of Antichrist?  

Posted: January 5, 2003
4:00 a.m. Eastern

by Thomas Horn

Many people believe that, before long, a man of superior intelligence, 
wit, charm, and diplomacy will emerge on the world scene as a savior. 
He will seemingly possess a transcendent wisdom that enables him to 
solve problems and offer solutions to many of today's most perplexing 
issues.  

His popularity will be widespread. His fans will include young and 
old, religious and non-religious, male and female. Talk show hosts 
will interview his colleagues, news anchors will cover his movements, 
scholars will applaud his uncanny ability at resolving what has 
escaped the rest of us, and the poor will bow down at his table.  

He will, in every human way, appeal to the best idea of society.  

But according to conservative news sites like Raiders News Update, his 
profound comprehension and irresistible presence will be the result of 
an invisible network of thousands of years of collective knowledge. He 
will, like the pharaohs of Egypt, represent the embodiment of a very 
old and super-intelligent spirit. Just as Jesus was the "seed of the 
woman" (Gen. 3:15), he will be the "seed of the serpent."  

Although his arrival in the form of a man was foretold by numerous 
Scriptures, the broad masses of the world will not recognize this 
"beast" of the Revelation.  

It's been assumed for centuries that a prerequisite for his appearing 
is an all-seeing world order, an umbrella under which national boundaries 
dissolve, and ethnic groups, ideologies, religions, and economics from 
around the world, exist beneath his hungry domination.  

At the head of his utopian administration, his single personality will 
surface. He will appear to be a man of distinguished character, but will 
ultimately become "a king of fierce countenance" (Dan. 8:23).  

With imperious decree he will facilitate a totalitarian world government. 
Those who refuse his New World Order will be branded as unpatriotic, 
and imprisoned (or destroyed) until finally he exalts himself "above all 
that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he, as God, sitteth in 
the temple of God, showing himself that he is God" (2 Thess. 2:4).  

For many years the idea of his Orwellian society, where his all-seeing 
Antichrist-eye watches over the smallest details of our lives and 
qualifies our human liberties, was considered anathema. The concept 
that rugged individualism could somehow be sacrificed for his 
anesthetized universal harmony was repudiated by America's greatest 
minds.  

But something happened in the 1970's. Following a call by Nelson 
Rockefeller for the creation of a "New World Order," presidential 
candidate Jimmy Carter campaigned, saying, "We must replace 
balance of power politics with world order politics."  

Evidently he struck a chord with world leaders.  

During the 1980's, then president George Bush repeated Carter's 
one-world dirge, announcing over national television that "a New 
World Order" had arrived. Following the initial broadcast, he 
addressed the Congress where he added: "What is at stake is more 
than one small country [Kuwait], it is a big idea - a new world 
order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause 
to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace and security, 
freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world worthy of our struggle, 
and worthy of our children's future!"   

The current administration's response to Bush Senior's call for a 
new world order, in which peace and security, freedom, and the rule 
of law is aspired, has been to authorize increasingly severe surveillance 
of - and even elimination of - civil liberties.  

The Total Information Awareness System, the controversial Pentagon 
research program that aims to gather and analyze a vast array of 
information on Americans, has hired at least eight private companies 
to work on the effort,[1] while without any official public notice, 
and without any congressional hearings,[2] the Bush administration 
continues forward with a Total Information Awareness System that will 
make Orwell's 1984 prophecy come to pass.  

"It will extensively mine government and commercial data banks, 
enabling the FBI, the CIA, and other intelligence agencies to collect 
information that will allow the governmentuas noted on Nightlineuto 
essentially reconstruct the movements of citizens. This will be done 
without warrants from courts, thereby making individual privacy as 
obsolete as the sauropods of the Mesozoic era."  

Meanwhile, biometrics - the incessantly hyped technology that relies on 
physical characteristics such as fingerprints, facial and iris patterns, 
to ID individuals - is emerging as the indisputable security standard of 
the new corporate realm. The next logical step of The Total Information 
Awareness System will be to monitor travel, banking, and security 
authorization using biometric chips implanted in the body according 
to some futurists.  

As if that was not enough, the Coast Guard confirmed plans just 
this week to employ 70 Unmanned Drones to monitor people-movements 
along U.S. Coastlines. If the robotic eyes-in-the-sky are successful, 
additional robots for vast surveillance and information-analysis will 
look for suspicious patterns in everything from personal driving habits 
to the movies you watch, prescriptions you purchase, telephone calls 
you make, and arguments you have with your spouse or divorcee.  

"It is as if a giant plan is unfolding," one time presidential candidate, 
Pat Robertson observes. "Everything perfectly on cue."  

While I've disagreed with some of Pat's comments recently (Not while 
I was a guest on his 700 Club show), I can't help but feel this particular 
comment - "It is as if a giant plan is unfolding" - is inspired.  

Is The Total Information Awareness System part of the Antichrist's 
plan? It, or something like it, will be.  

An ancient scheme is unfolding. At the core of the conspiracy a leader 
of indescribable brutality is about to materialize. His all- seeing, 
all-controlling desire will make the combined depravities of Antiochus 
Epiphenes, Hitler, Stalin and Genghis Khan - all of whom were types of 
the antichrist - look like child's play.

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Source: Raiders News Updates - http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/antichrist.htm

Cheers, Steve..

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