I wrote Illumini after watching an amazing rebroadcast of the PBS Frontline show called Top Secret America. For an hour I was mesmerized by the astounding expansion of secret intelligence departments within the government in the decade after 9/11. What disturbed me most was the prolonged growth of these programs and the direction that the country was heading in. Illumini began as a story about where this would take us fifty years out. What kind of world we could be living in if the tremendous growth of secretive intelligence agencies and pernicious legislation continues unabated. It ends as a story about hope for the freedoms we cherish and so often take for granted. The story is both a warning and a reminder that every time we allow our fear to undermine our freedom we concede a part of our hope for the future.

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