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In reply to the discussion: NSA Spying Not Very Focused on Terrorism: Power, Money and Crushing Dissent Are Real Motives Ops [View all]woo me with science
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I've had this image in my head constantly since realizing what the PTB are doing to us. It's an image of a graph with two lines plotted on it. One line represents our remaining power, and it keeps going down over time. The other line is their power, and it keeps going up. And I have wondered exactly where that critical point is in the future when our line is too low, and theirs is too high, to have any chance of stopping them anymore.
It *is* a race. Every single day they are stripping us more of what we need to stop them.
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NSA Spying Not Very Focused on Terrorism: Power, Money and Crushing Dissent Are Real Motives Ops [View all]
Octafish
Oct 2013
OP
Agreed. Dirt on a key politician is worth money, potentially a lot of money.
GoneFishin
Oct 2013
#50
I'm trying to figure out why they wiretapped Howard Baker; he was a moderate Republican?
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#43
What if they used it to, eh, filter out those who opposed their wars for profit?
Octafish
Oct 2013
#9
We either strip corporations of their power, or they will soon finish the job of stripping us
Zorra
Oct 2013
#55