Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Censored, Surveilled, Watch Listed and Jailed: The Absurdity of Being a Citizen in the American Police State

Via John

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“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984
In past ages, those who dared to speak out against tyranny—viewed as an act of treason—were blinded, castrated, disfigured, mutilated, rendered mute by having their tongues cut out of their heads, and ultimately crucified.

In the American police state, the price to be paid for speaking truth to power (also increasingly viewed as an act of treason) is surveillance, censorship, jail and ultimately death.

It’s a diabolically ingenious tactic for muzzling, disarming and ultimately eliminating one’s critics or potential adversaries.

However, where many Americans go wrong is in assuming that you have to be doing something illegal or challenging the government’s authority in order to be flagged as a suspicious character, labeled an enemy of the state and locked up like a dangerous criminal.

4 comments:

  1. Ya, got added to a legit looking government database on Twitter yesterday, blocked them and said f-em, if the ever come, I'll take more than 5 with me guaranteed !

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    1. :)

      “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking:

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    2. Theyll never get to a camp, I'll die on my hallway floor, unless I get em all !
      ;)

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