Winston Churchill understood this too, even though the surveillance state and enabling technology didn't exist when he made this speech:
"...Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science..."
The lights of "perverted science" can mean many things, but it is evident that unlimited surveillance and the usage of that to tyrannize people and keep them in line is completely in line with totalitarianism in all of its forms.
I fully accept that every single email I send, every post I make, every website I visit, every intersection with cameras my car passes through, every toll road I take, every purchase I make, and every airline flight I fly on is categorized and filed in some way.
That information may never be used against me by my own government.
But as we have seen, adequate protections are not in place to ensure that. The Left has ensured they were deliberately bypassed and perverted to spy on an opposing political presidential campaign. That is profoundly disturbing to me.
That is what we are up against. People like you and I understand the scope, and hopefully, we understand the inherent threat.
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