>>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.
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.
I knew that free flashlight from the vendor survey was too good to be true.
Tin foil hat?? For thinking we are in a police state?
Well I have a little personal horror story for you. I’m a pain management physician in WI. I prescribe narcotic for chronic pain, so I need to do urine drug testing for obvious reasons. The Medicare Nazis hit me with a coding violation and they are threatening fines of 200k and accusing me of fraud. This is despite the fact that our claims were never denied, AND, my billing person frequently and routinely checked with the local Medicare carrier in Madison to verify that the codes were correct. Medicare never published any coding changes with the carrier in Madison, but they are contending that we should have known. Hopefully, I can settle with them.
But if I can’t, and they start going after my liberty all I can say is come and take it. There are so many laws and regulations now that a federal violation is nearly impossible to avoid. Those imprisoned under such regulations are really no different than political prisoners in a concentration camp.
This government is certainly capable of great evil, and if something isn’t done to turn things around real soon, we are looking at a new dark age.