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In reply to the discussion: Germans illuminate message on US embassy [View all]PATRICK
(12,378 posts)and the form of protest is about the underlying truth of the matter. Halliburton expanded and set up the Guantanamo prison well before 9/11
You may not be really protecting the American people(which the Virtual Stasi database does little of) but somethings you do prepare for while pretending surprise at others.
I am sure Hoover did not destroy everyone in his secret files(lifetime job security files) but these things move apace. In a time of crisis or war more people like J. Edgar get entrenched and so does the abuse. Progress was made in getting rid of the abuses, then not completely, then reversed, and now presumed not only innocent but secretly privileged truly insanely but it implies itself beyond all law anyway. It would almost be impossible for this to sustain itself as governance at all if all the abuses were universally present, yet they will increase, as they must on this trajectory.
According to the whim of the gods. The suffering and brutality of the people will enfold as unrelated dramas.
The light was a symbolic taunt. The studied comment by the Stasi officer was more to the point. If they had this capability they would not have needed all the really inefficient boots on the face brutality that ONLY served the goal of generally terrorizing the populace. Our more humane system would also have eliminated a lot(but not all) goon jobs. The problem of course that the intimidation effect might be too diluted and certainly not get at the "problem" people. So what happens next is a big component of this overall program which seems all potential and nearly zero delivery.