IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FAR FUTURE THERE IS ONLY GOVERNMENT.
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Posted on 01/17/2014 2:35:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A couple of years ago, a co-worker and I were discussing the film “The Lives of Others.” I posited that if we were not careful, we would end up that way. He literally laughed at me. He has retired since then, but if I run into him, you can rest assured I will remind him of this. By the way, he is a conservative.
Tax Slaves, we've become.
>>Police state? Yeh, I was thinking about that while I went through the security checkpoint on my way to the state re-education center to turn in my unapproved propaganda. Got a tinfoil hat on you? Mine’s blown off somewhere.
Your 20th century thinking is limiting your ability to see. In the 30’s, people had information on paper. They worked with real objects. Their prized material goods were...well...material.
Today, information is everything. It is our identity, our work, and for the younger generations, it is even their things of value.
A couple entries in a database and you can’t get car insurance, or the insurance you have no longer exists. Someone can hack your accounts and upload some child porn, and you become an instant pariah.
The NSA is the instrument of the 21st century police state and your tinfoil hat won’t protect you anymore because you carry the mind control device in your pocket.
Jesus H. Christ. ALL the revelations and you talk about TIN FOIL HATS??!?
Will you admit to being in a police state once you hear of many of the goons breaking doors down of people who might think differently than the State approves of?
Or will it require that they actually break YOUR door down?
And even then, will you admit it?
Look: Normally I would write "may your chains rest lightly upon you" but it looks like the chains will be on us all... so I will get scant Shaedenfreude from knowing you, too, suffer.
A child is coming
A child is coming
A child is coming to you
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What are we gonna do when Uncle Samuel comes around Askin' for the young one's name
And lookin' for the print of his hand for the files in their numbers game
I don't want his chances for freedom to ever be that slim
Let's not tell 'em about him —"
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The hippie philosophy was/is not orthogonal to that of Constitutionalists.
That's the only reason I can come up with, that you would mock what is obviously happening.
| IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FAR FUTURE THERE IS ONLY GOVERNMENT.
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I think thats the plan alright.
How we stop them...I dont know.
>>You mean my lip balm?
Joke about it all you want. How old are you? If you are over 60, then the Information Age can be a joke to you, however the government doesn’t really consider you to be much of an issue anymore. Oh sure, you vote, but elections are rigged now by the very electronic devices that you are laughing at.
Just imagine how bad it would be if they collected information on a Speaker of the House or a Supreme Court Justice.
>>The hippie philosophy was/is not orthogonal to that of Constitutionalists.
I know. Until they merged with the hard drug culture, they really were the Tea Party. I have a lot of respect these days for real hippies (not the Prius-driving, Birkenstock-wearing Yuppies that think they’re counter-cultural today, but the real thing).
I knew that free flashlight from the vendor survey was too good to be true.
Has anyone done a return on investment analysis for this gargantuan data collection system?
I can’t imagine how much money several hundred acres of servers costs, but it can’t be cheap. Exactly how many terrorists has this allowed us to capture?
I don't think 'Divide By Zero' is an allowable mathematical construct.
The biggest problem I'm going to have with the zombie apocalypse is wiping the huge grin off my face.
-——Exactly how many terrorists has this allowed us to capture-——
The whole point is to secretly observe enemies. There can be no ROI calculations because of the need for secrecy . In war secrecy, intense secrecy, is justified. To argue otherwise is just plain foolish.
There is no evidence at all of misuse of the meta data. My sense is that federal and local meta data is obtained outside the NSA with no warrant. That info can be used to get a warrant with adequate probable cause.
Collection and use of third party metadata is not a violation of the constitution.
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