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leveymg

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22. What changed is technology has made totalitarianism practical for the first time outside of small

Reply to For Freddie (Reply #19)

Sun Sep 20, 2015, 03:22 PM

Sep 2015

village or neighborhood life. The entire country is now Little Italy writ large.

My grandfather was one of the last Hollywood producers willing to hire Dalton. I know about that part of this country's history. You are right, anyone who is even remotely radical knows they have no privacy. My own dossier goes back a long way.

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FBI Ramps Up Biometrics Programs to Catalogue Information on Everyone in America [View all] marmar Sep 2015 OP

Well, they've had mine since college anyway. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2015 #1

They've had mine for a very long time, as well. MineralMan Sep 2015 #3

We need to get this to the greatest page, marmar. Everyone needs to read the full piece.I hedda_foil Sep 2015 #2

And people wonder why conspiracy theories get so much traction in this country! Blus4u Sep 2015 #4

The day will come when you can't drive a car, ride in a plane, train or bus without biometrics leveymg Sep 2015 #5

Already Here... For Freddie Sep 2015 #19

What changed is technology has made totalitarianism practical for the first time outside of small leveymg Sep 2015 #22

Why is this shit going on, under a Democratic Administration? 99th_Monkey Sep 2015 #6

if McCain were the one doing all these things Washington would've been gridlocked with human MisterP Sep 2015 #9

A Neoliberal Police State is pretty much the same as a Conservative Police State leveymg Sep 2015 #16

Relax America! It's all being done to keep you safe!! RufusTFirefly Sep 2015 #7

Close, but no cigar! pocoloco Sep 2015 #11

You missed the target too. bvar22 Sep 2015 #17

And the government is the 1% property zeemike Sep 2015 #18

Not really. bvar22 Sep 2015 #23

Well of course you are right, we are the government. zeemike Sep 2015 #24

Walt Whitman would not approve. JEB Sep 2015 #8

the irony is that his fingerprints would be in that database too no matter what he says lunatica Sep 2015 #10

Walt would possibly make the no fly list. JEB Sep 2015 #13

Super Glue For Freddie Sep 2015 #20

thanks! lunatica Sep 2015 #25

Sure he would! RufusTFirefly Sep 2015 #12

Walt listened with a different intent than the FBI JEB Sep 2015 #14

I am against this - almost everyone posting here is jwirr Sep 2015 #15

And most of the US POI are in the SF-86 dump so everyone else knows about this too. erronis Sep 2015 #21

I don't have fingerprints... Holly_Hobby Sep 2015 #26

Good luck if they can figure this out: hunter Sep 2015 #27

Wonder what they will do with all that information? Octafish Sep 2015 #28

I know here in Korea, immigration requires a fingerprint scan of everyone coming into davidpdx Sep 2015 #29