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Today in the Surveillance State: The "War on Reality" | |
2013-06-16 | |
The high-school civics class version of American democracy, at least the version I learned, said that individuals are largely free to do what they do and believe what they believe in private (within the bounds of law), while representative government has a duty to be accountable and transparent. All this NSA and surveillance-state debate in the past week has shown that our understanding of that order has flipped. Now government has the privilege of operating in opacity and secrecy, while our day-to-day must be transparent and scrutinized (without any meaningful input from us about that arrangement).
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Posted by:Bubba Big Foot1639 |
#3 What Mark Lavin has warned us for years has come to pass, and what Judge Napolitano recently said is right. "We are no longer a democracy, we are now a dictatorship". |
Posted by: Besoeker 2013-06-16 04:09 |
#2 But, but, this is for the children! |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-06-16 02:54 |
#1 Our vigilant leader was moody, for his was an onerous duty: "What we've got to do is say 'please' and 'thank you' as I shine a light up your patootie!" |
Posted by: Ominetch Grotle6144 2013-06-16 00:49 |