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3. Can you say "totalitarian surveillance state"?

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2013, 03:47 PM

Aug 2013

I knew you could.

Wholesale spying and use of that information to target anyone they want, while fabricating the reasons for the targeting. What gets me is that this is exactly the kind of nightmare scenario we used to put forth as an extreme, *hypothetical* example of how corrupt the government could become under a corporate, authoritarian state.

And here we are, with former members of the Stasi commenting on how the NSA would have made them drool.

Here we are.

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Police, SS, DEA, DOJ, DOD, DHS� Add the IRS to list [View all] damnedifIknow Aug 2013 OP

If they didn't have "terrorists" to "protect" us from they'd invent another bogeyman. Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2013 #1

We have met the enemy Hydra Aug 2013 #2

Can you say "totalitarian surveillance state"? woo me with science Aug 2013 #3

They said it couldn't happen here damnedifIknow Aug 2013 #4

Well DAMN!!! bvar22 Aug 2013 #5