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Octafish

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2. Hannah Arendt put the goal of wholesale surveillance into words.
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 11:17 PM
Jan 2016

The goal of wholesale surveillance, as Arendt wrote in "The Origins of Totalitarianism," is not, in the end, to discover crimes, “but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.”

via Chris Hedges

For those wondering about the conservative aim to eliminate the Department of Education and buy high school history textbooks from Texas:

“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.” ― Hannah Arendt

Thank you for standing up to the fascist warmonger greed head traitors, Smarmie Doofus. They fear most in this world Justice and Truth.

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