[cradle of freedom]

This can be used to gage the mood of people in different places and at different times, taking the temperature of the public mood. Are they getting mad enough to maybe do something. They know too much about us and we know to little about them. Knowledge is a weapon to these people.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“This can be used to gage the mood of people in different places and at different times, taking the temperature of the public mood.”

They’re going to be really mad when they get to me.

[Chainmail]

Actually, that has been the object of our Government for years now: discover and overcome any hint at all of domestic rebellion. The whole business about massive communications monitoring, the exercises conducted with our country involving Homeland Security and our armed forces, even the weird training doctrine within the army about "Tea Party insurrections" all point to a Government reorienting itself to stifle any incipient dissent.

Now that they have the technologies to support these efforts, they are rigidizing their power for now and forever.