Re:Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynic...
by hokkos on Friday November 20, 2015 @11:41AM
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For now it seems that terrorist attacks made more impact on social fabric than US or French surveillance.
Re:Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynic...
by loup-vaillant on Friday November 20, 2015 @12:00PM
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Well, they did enable government to implement those surveillance programs. It was already in the works, but terrorism is a wonderful pretext (along with paedophilia, Nazism, and starving authors).
This type of false thinking is what allows government officials to manipulate public thought into agreeing to give up their rights. This has literally led to the FBI radicalizing young men in order to 'catch them' in the act -- thus justifying their existence by creating the very black-swan event they are supposed to stop.