Parallels between worlds...

In this day and age we do have some modern day threats pressed upon our individual freedom. Some threats that we have are included in the recent Patriot Act, passed by our President George W. Bush. This law says that the government had the ability to tap our phone lines, look at past emails and files, search houses without a warrant, and other acts like that. In my opinion that is really taking things too far. Now the government doesn't even need to have a lot of evidence to do these tasks, they just can. If you do not let these people search your house then you are disobeying the law. In the book the government had a sense of what people were doing based on their televisions. On televisions you can see exactly what the other people were doing, as if they were right next to you. I think that the TVs were a very big threat on individual freedom. Another threat was that, like the patriot act, the government could search your house with no concern about you. The fireman would rush in and just dump kerosene everywhere and burn the house down, if they got a call about books being there. These are the threats based on our world and the book's world.