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This stinks to high heaven. There is all this surveillance technology used for political purposes, but it was implemented primarily in response to terrorism and 9/11. It makes me wonder if we are less secure from terrorism and less secure in our civil rights. Let me explain.

This technology aids very little, if at all in waging war. Although it has been sold that way. It was needed to fight the war on terrorism. Me thinks the intelligence community and other deep staters knew full well that the technology could be used to further political agendas, and they salivated over it. They used terrorism as the official reason to buy the tech.

Meanwhile, traditional methods of destroying the enemy were restrained. Obama even went so far as having rules of engagement that endangered the lives of our soldiers and Marines. The scourge of terrorism was never fully address in the field of battle. (Think of reconstituting and morphing terrorist organizations.) We never laid waste to the real enemy because we were politically correct and worried about collateral damage.

So to my point, we didn't secure ourselves from long-term terrorism. They will reconstitute and we will be attacked again.

Why would the deep state want terrorism to go away anyway? They don't. It is something that can be used as a ruse over and over again. It is a convenient distraction to grab more power. That leads me to the second half of my observation. We are less secure in our civil rights. Expanded government and expanded technology, originally sold as a panacea to terrorism, is easy to use for incorrect political purposes and to control people. Want proof? It was used in an attempt to disenfranchise 63,000,000 US citizens in a failed coup. All of this because of pencil necked deep staters want to feel a false sense of power.

The solution to this problem is obvious. Unfortunately too few people recognize we have a problem and know where the problem originates. And even if enough people recognized the problem and someone wanted to solve the problem, we would have to worry that in its solution another power grab was going to occur. This means solution needs to be quick and crude. By crude I mean massive parts of government need to be shuttered without examination and without building up other parts of government. Cut funding, turn off the computers and lock the doors at the end of the day. If we can survive months of a hoax shut-in, then we can survive securing our freedom and liberty