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In reply to the discussion: Pic of the Moment: Welcome to the Surveillance State [View all]East Coast Pirate
(775 posts)11. Bury your computer in the woods and don't leave the house.
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Yep, technology has improved and more means of survellience and it is here for a while.
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#1
Not me, don't care how much data they collect on me, I am not watching outside
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#67
It's all very boring until someone gets into power who has a real thing against boring people.
Kurovski
Jun 2013
#90
I would not think it boring if terrorist attacks never happened again. I quiet well understand when
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#97
"As long as I got my gun I can be perfectly content as a slave in a fascist state."
reusrename
Jun 2013
#96
And it's all information that's gathered daily by private corps we interact with all the time.
baldguy
Jun 2013
#4
And the fact that corps aren't limited in what they do supposed to make me feel better?
baldguy
Jun 2013
#29
+1,000. Yes, we don't get any vote with them. We might pay cash and wear a bag over our head.
freshwest
Jun 2013
#81
And you think multinational, multibillion dollar corps with no public accountability
baldguy
Jun 2013
#37
There's no difference between TBTF corps and govt anymore. They feed off each other. n/t
Psephos
Jun 2013
#68
1,931 (and more to come) private companies that will undoubtedly lobby to increase surveillance
Auggie
Jun 2013
#5
I would think that having been there would also want you to stop any part of a process that
merrily
Jun 2013
#47
If we give up some of our civil liberties in name of fighting radical extremism, then the
totodeinhere
Jun 2013
#12
You mentioned protecting the Constitution. Is wholesale spying on the American people protecting the
totodeinhere
Jun 2013
#34
You are conflating defending the Constitution with keeping people physically s. That does not work.
merrily
Jun 2013
#40
I don't generally like Nazi analogies either but in this case I think that the analogy is a
totodeinhere
Jun 2013
#35
Godwin's rule is Mike Godwin's bullshit, designed to watch it grow as a pure meme, which,
merrily
Jun 2013
#42
You raise a good point. We're spending billions in the name of saving lives from terrorist attacks.
totodeinhere
Jun 2013
#19
No one forced us to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, or to stay in Afghanistan this long.
merrily
Jun 2013
#49
They would argue that they create and maintain thousands of high-paying jobs.
Amonester
Jun 2013
#94
One would have thought that the economic collapse of 2008 would have provided a great
merrily
Jun 2013
#50
I think they're trying to figure out who in the citizenry to kill off and when.
valerief
Jun 2013
#21
We ARE the enemies of the gazillionaires. If we weren't, they'd share and wouldn't be gazillionaires
valerief
Jun 2013
#99
$1 trillion per year is budgeted to this monstrous for-profit Terror-Industrial Complex:
Fire Walk With Me
Jun 2013
#64
Check out available jobs in just about any company that contracts with the government in
LibDemAlways
Jun 2013
#82