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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
8. Totally. Our government wouldn't lie to us...
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 01:45 PM
Jan 2014

...apart from the wars and banksters and stuff. Certainly not in a way that they could be caught before the big round-up.

The goal of wholesale surveillance, as Arendt wrote in “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” is not, in the end, to discover crimes, “but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.” And because Americans’ emails, phone conversations, Web searches and geographical movements are recorded and stored in perpetuity in government databases, there will be more than enough “evidence” to seize us should the state deem it necessary. This information waits like a deadly virus inside government vaults to be turned against us. It does not matter how trivial or innocent that information is. In totalitarian states, justice, like truth, is irrelevant.


Bet more than a few DUers missed Chris Hedges' important article because they were busy poo-pooing.

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