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Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
1. Exactly.
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 11:09 PM
Jan 2016

>>>The implications of these types of strategies in the digital age are chilling. Imagine Facebook chats, porn viewing history, emails, and more made public to discredit a leader who threatens the status quo, or used to blackmail a reluctant target into becoming an FBI informant. These are not far-fetched ideas. They are the reality of what happens when the surveillance state is allowed to grow out of control, and the full King letter, as well as current intelligence community practices illustrate that reality richly. >>>>

What.... on *earth*... do defenders of the Surveillance State think tptb are going to DO w. all this information they're collecting on everyone *COVERTLY*?

Is there no one alive who is over 55 y.o. ?

Does no one remember Watergate, Cointelpro, CIA assassinations?

No one remembers the coup in Chile?

Does anyone even READ their own history anymore?

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