Professor Noam Chomsky is reported to have said:
"'...Governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – which is their own population,' he told the Guardian."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/19/nsa-surveillance-attack-american-citizens-noam-chomsky
goo_head_83
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Well that is true of most governments like France and England where one protest can bring the entire government to a standstill and the government has to give in to the people or risk imploding. Since we have Miley Cyrus dancing around half naked on TV, our government isn't too worried about us.
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I'd say that Chomsky got it backward. The US government is the citizens' primary enemy, at least in this day and age it is.
Anonymous
good old Noam is a linguist and tends to exaggerate
governments should fear their people not people fear their governments. (?)
Bogus Diddley
We have met the enemy, and he is US!