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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
7. The response of the woman shopping.....
Mon May 26, 2014, 09:30 AM
May 2014

...that he interviewed, who said ''if you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about'' -- is exactly the place where Police States desire to be. Compliant citizens who neither question nor even know they have a right to question those who are tacitly, ''their servants.''

Walmart's policy of checking bags and carts is nothing less than an invasion of privacy. It's a policy of: ''Guilt until proven innocence.'' And no one's yet called them on it because in a fascist state, the government sides with the corporation.

Creeping authoritarianism is the way to go if you're a New World Order trying to get things setup. The despots and dictators of old left a legacy of failure not because they weren't ruthless enough, but too much. And they didn't analyze what they were doing wrong. But that is not now the case. Computers have captured us in more ways than most can imagine.

- And so the world that Edward Bernays help design and usher in, has now been achieved:

this is nothing new.... chillfactor May 2014 #1
Costco does it Flying Squirrel May 2014 #2
Actually the way Costco does it is a joke tularetom May 2014 #4
Yeah, Costco is real jokesters... bayareaboy May 2014 #14
I got stopped at Costco - and I felt like a criminal PumpkinAle May 2014 #15
Costco and Best Buy does this too 951-Riverside May 2014 #3
de Tocqueville and Orwell both foresaw this: DeSwiss May 2014 #5
Circuit City Enrique May 2014 #16
Best Buy has always done that. RebelOne May 2014 #20
Another ploy at some mall stores suzanner May 2014 #6
The response of the woman shopping..... DeSwiss May 2014 #7
Idea: Don't shop at their stores zebonaut May 2014 #8
One reason people accept this as norm, is SmittynMo May 2014 #9
Yeah I know. DeSwiss May 2014 #10
*I'm not a lawyer* In my limited knowledge of the law... Taitertots May 2014 #11
Not unless they post it at the entrance in clear wording..... DeSwiss May 2014 #12
My understanding is Costco requires it as a condition of membership. Hassin Bin Sober May 2014 #17
Actually the cameras are for the employees... lame54 May 2014 #13
Not surprising at all. DeSwiss May 2014 #23
You Lost Me When "old ladies" Was Uttered. tea and oranges May 2014 #18
So now calling an old lady ''an old lady'' is a pejorative? DeSwiss May 2014 #22
Call Workers "Employees" or "Workers" if you're trying to make a point. tea and oranges May 2014 #24
I believe he used both terms. DeSwiss May 2014 #25
my local grocery closed... they sucked anyway OKNancy May 2014 #19
so after 20 yrs of doing it at sams club PatrynXX May 2014 #21
I always tell anyone who wants to check xfundy May 2014 #26
If everyone did that, it'd stop. DeSwiss May 2014 #27
Sam's club has beeen ddoing this for at least 16 years. Nitram May 2014 #28
So what? DeSwiss May 2014 #29
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