Forget the President -- Big Brother rules America
Here are a couple of stories documenting more of our daily drift toward a technology-driven police state.
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Comments (9)
It is a given -- an absolute given -- that all government programs will be abused. ALL OF THEM. It is essentially a natural law.
All authorities will move beyond their allotted roles.
If a technology is capable of being monitored, it will be -- to the maximum extent possible. Regardless of users. Regardless of laws. Regardless of assurances -- ANY assurances.
People need to realize this.
Posted by David | October 11, 2008 4:54 PM
When Barack Obama wins and we get hit, or McCain wins and we get hit, all we will hear is we could have done so much more to stop this. That is what is driving this.
Posted by meg | October 11, 2008 5:01 PM
I'm reading Naomi Wolf's "The End of America" right now -- seriously disturbing along the same lines of this post.
Posted by George Seldes | October 11, 2008 5:55 PM
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Ben Franklin
Posted by mp97303 | October 11, 2008 6:46 PM
"the accounts of the two whistleblowers, could not be independently corroborated,"
How would you like our government to try and intercept terrorist communications?
Ask them to identify themsleves first?
Just wondering.
Posted by Ben | October 11, 2008 7:42 PM
They could start by monitoring the folks at Goldman Sachs, who are doing more damage than Al Qaeda ever could.
Posted by Jack Bog | October 11, 2008 7:48 PM
You're right there,,,,
Nice shot, Jack!
Posted by Ben | October 11, 2008 8:49 PM
Who are these people that want a society of which 1/2 are morons spying on the other half? Ooops, I forgot. They're the ones who cheated their way into office two elections running.
Posted by Arbitrash | October 12, 2008 12:02 AM
Y'know, there's a guy who has been saying all this was coming, going on 7 or 8 years now. Mike Ruppert, here in Oregon, in Ashland. Or was, that is, until the FIB,USCIA bugged his communications and sent their mercenary tweaker-thugs (anything for another 'fix') to invade Mike's offices and smash his computers, 2 summers ago. And he fled the country. That story and more still playing here: From The Wilderness .COM
Mike's back and nailing them bigtime, now. Only this time a growing majority of folks is supportive and sees things the way he sees things. A lot of his writing, as well as the latest, discusses living in economic collapse and under oppression.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | October 12, 2008 9:52 PM