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

> Re: Brin: The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous
> David Brin
> Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:51:51 -0700
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> Whine, moan bitch complain without any sensible suggestions... yep, that's the
> Cato way.
>
> Above all, aim all suspicion-of-authority at some vague "government" and ignore
> all other forces.
>

??Wha??

Um, I'm not sure why Glenn Greenwald, who writes for Salon, and is not 
exactly a friend to the "Libertarian set", would write for a Pro-Cato 
site, (I thought it was an anti-cato site, namely because Glenn 
Greenwald wrote the article).

Also, the article, in particular, examines in detail many of the 
specific abuses the Obama admin has continued and extended from the Bush 
administration.

It's clear you didn't read the article, or even know who Glenn Greenwald 
is (try Salon.com).

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> From: KZK
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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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