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In reply to the discussion: The Goal of Wholesale Surveillance [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)Thank you, scarletwoman. You are so correct -- so exactly, precisely, immediately, and pertinently correct.
Just around the corner awaits the same peril that consumed Germany in the 1930s. It is so evil, many prefer to put their heads in the sand or sound off "yada yada yada I can't heeeeear you!"
Hitting the target requires great skill in aiming, as with the technique of releasing the bow and propelling the arrow. If off by a fraction of a millimeter, the point of impact of a target 50 meters away can be off by a meter or more. Such is the function of truth -- something that may be so small it can't be measure, or so huge that we can't recognize it when we see it.
Here's my algorithm or syllogism:
If ours is a democratic republic based on the constitution, then We the People are in charge, not the elected or unelected officials.
Secret government means some people have inside information and can act in secret, beyond accountability and above the law.
Therefore, the Constitution, the nation's laws and public accountability don't apply to the members of the secret government.
And that means this is no longer a nation based on equal justice under law, which is, from our -- you and me and what I hope are most DUers' -- way of looking at it, wrong.
Anyone who doesn't see that, isn't just part of the problem. They're in the way of its solution.
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