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90-percent

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5. NSA
Wed Dec 18, 2013, 10:48 AM
Dec 2013

The NSA is charged with looking for needles in haystacks. Their "total information awareness" has given them a haystack the size of Rhode Island!

Secondly, this meta data stored forever is a wonderful tool for a totalitarian government to practice some truly beautiful SELECTIVE PROSECUTION. If you practice your rigt to FREE SPEECH and somehow offend the POWERS THAT BE they can sift through years of your electronic life and perhaps stumble on something you did 6 years ago that you MAY NOT BE PROUD OF.

Mass criminalization - there's so many laws we're all breaking some law now and then. If they don't like you, they can put the hammer down and ruin your life in punishment for being critical of them.

The building of an American Totalitarian Fascist Police State has been happening since Sept 11, 2001. IF us peasants start to revolt, we will see our militarized police putting us all down like General Macarthur did to the Bonus Army in 1932.

-90% Jimmy

The Bonus Army was WW1 vets living in tents in DC trying to get monies the govt promised them for their service in WW1.

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