conclude that we should fear the Establishment, not technology.
My general observation is that we have substituted technology for good management (decision making)
Technology is only dangerous in a totalitarian regime or an anarchy.
Here’s the rub — LACK of technology is even more dangerous in a totalitarian regime or an anarchy. Lack of guns for example. And it was photocopiers that helped underground papers circulate in the USSR.
This nation suffers from both totalitarian aspects and anarchial aspects. And I am very glad we have so much technology that they have failed to overwhelm us — yet.
The trick is this — centralized control of technology is always the great danger, such as during the Dark Ages when few peasants could read and books were copied by hand.
State control of ARP would never overthrow our republic. Federal control would be the great danger. I do propose we have a federal database of all current license plates [and we probably do already]. That’s the only necessary federal power to kick off an anti-illegal-immigration purge.