Re: Brin: The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous

This is the same anti government pitch being pushed right now to hamstring this administration. As always I don't understand what the oligarchy is thinking.  What will replace this government if it is paralyzed? Are they so small a group and so well protected that they think they will just ride out the new dark ages or just unable to visualize the impact of their actions?

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Chris

On Aug 21, 2010, at 21:51, David Brin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Whine, moan bitch complain without any sensible suggestions... yep, that's the Cato way.
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> Above all, aim all suspicion-of-authority at some vague "government" and ignore all other forces.
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> From: KZK <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Brin: The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous
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> http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/08/09/glenn-greenwald/the-digital-surveillance-state-vast-secret-and-dangerous/
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> And as we acquiesce to more and more sacrifices of our privacy to the omnipotent Surveillance State, it builds the wall of secrecy behind which it operates higher and more impenetrable, which means it constantly knows more about the actions of citizens, while citizens constantly know less about it. We chirp endlessly about the Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, the Democrats and Republicans, but this is the Real U.S. Government: a massive Surveillance State functioning in darkness, beyond elections and parties, so secret, vast and powerful that it evades the control or knowledge of any one person or even any organization.
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