When it comes to presaging a dystopian nightmare nothing says it like ‘total information awareness' even while lacking proper syntax, and now it's been officially sanctioned. Just as the effects of global warming will not come to a fatal head in measurable, steady increments but in a sudden unforeseen cascade, the roll off from rolling over will be our getting rolled over by co-opted snitches in league with cops in league with spies in league with armies, all serving as mindless goon squads in league with the rich.
We've all seen examples in history...well, all but those in charge of governing the country, of how a permissive malaise may segue ever so smoothly into random roundups of anyone turned in by anyone for anything, and especially by no one for nothing.
Having been, with the demise of habeas corpus, thrown back into the fifteenth century, could we be, in our complacency, ushering in the darkest age since the discovery of fire?
Paranoia strikes deep. Into your life it will creep. Singular wiretapping. It's the new at&t.
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To Iniquity, and Beyond: News from a lunatic-infested dirt clod
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