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Octafish

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4. Where's it all lead to?

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sat Jun 28, 2014, 05:01 PM

Jun 2014

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.”

via Chris Hedges

For those wondering about race to eliminate the Department of Education and buy high school history textbooks from Texas:

“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.” ― Hannah Arendt

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This Is Why You Should Care That the Government Can Know Everything About You [View all] xchrom Jun 2014 OP

Nice article that CLEARLY says why dragnet surveillance is bad. Pholus Jun 2014 #1

+1 woo me with science Jun 2014 #5

Big K&R! nt riderinthestorm Jun 2014 #2

K&R woo me with science Jun 2014 #3

Where's it all lead to? Octafish Jun 2014 #4

A government with the mindset that it's entitled to know everything about us, but we should know winter is coming Jun 2014 #6