“If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge documents, build improved electronic gadgets in your garage that’ll outwit the gadgets used by the authorities.” – Philip K. Dick, author of Minority Report
On any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears.
A byproduct of this new age in which we live, whether you’re walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be sure that some government agency, whether the NSA or some other entity, is listening in and tracking your behavior. As I point out in my new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, this doesn’t even begin to touch on the corporate trackers that monitor your purchases, web browsing, Facebook posts and other activities taking place in the cyber sphere.
The revelations by Edward Snowden only scrape the surface in revealing the lengths to which government agencies and their corporate allies will go to conduct mass surveillance on all communications and transactions within the United States.
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Where are all the simple minded goofs who think "everything is okay" and they have nothing to worry about? Do they know how many Soviet, Chinese, and German citizens were KILLED by their own government --MILLIONS!! - (family members just disappeared, so there wouldn't be anyone seeking "revenge") because their "leaders" heard (the old fashioned way -- through informers or family members, often their own children!) they said sometime "wrong"? You yes-men live under the illusion that "if you aren't doing anything wrong, then don't worry". Trouble is, YOU don't get to define "wrong". You just get taken away in the middle of the night, just like the Patriot Act and the NDAA specify. You might want to stop that holier-than-thou cheering now. Yeah, I know. Some of you would still be cheering even as they prodded you with a rifle and ordered you onto the trains. God help us.
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