[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]FIH: You also have companies like Google willingly handing private information over to the government with nary a complaint.
Taken as a whole, we’re seeing an imperial presidency, combined with a National Security State and aided and abetted by a compliant and docile media.
Some, including formerly active Obama sycophants, are starting to wake up to the larger/wider ramifications.
When Ron Fournier at National Journal flips sides, you know something’s up.[/quote]
It is technology that enables the googles and imperial presidencies to do what they want to do. It would not have been possible even as recent as 8 years ago.
At the same time, it is the same technology that folks concerned about their privacy can exploit to protect their privacy.
The State has a tendency to grab more power as techniques to grab more power is made available. On the balance side, a well educated and aware populace can provide a counterweight using the same techniques to assert their rights. It is just that the well-aware populace that is willing to assert their rights is fast becoming a small minority in this one man one vote system where emotions, looks and stupid shit like israel, abortion, gays etc. rule, while bit by bit the rights of life and property are being taken away.
I believe it is just temporary and the balance will eventually be restored. My optimism is based on the inventive capacity of the people who will find any means to communicate in private, and to secure their life & property.
