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? asked in Politics & GovernmentGovernment · 8 years ago

Why are we creating a massive surveillance state ?

Why are we creating a massive surveillance state to protect us from “terrorism,” when the Obama administration won’t even call the mass murder of U.S. soldiers at Ft. Hood by a confessed jihadist “terrorism”?

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  • 8 years ago
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    Because we have the technology.

    Government likes control. When people feel threatened, it gives them an excuse to exercise it. It was no different in Julius Caesar's day, except he had to rely on informants.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    The more the dominate socialists can know about the citizenry the more complete is their control of them. Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin would have had an orgasm had they possessed today's technology to keep the populace under continuous surveillance.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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