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In reply to the discussion: Customer Says Best Buy Workers Are Snoops [View all]Pholus
(4,062 posts)22. Laugh it up fuzzball! (*)
This is merely the demonstration of exactly how much trust has been earned by the government when they are granted an extraordinary power to fight "Terra."
Now whatever "panopticon" exists is obviously ohhhh-so-secret and mere mortals cannot be told of what lies within. Ostensibly it's because we can't tip off the Quakers (errr, Terrorists I guess) but I'm cynical enough to realize it's because we're looking at yet another massive fraud and waste scandal, one rife with the potential for abuse in the absence of sufficient oversight.
Remember the NSA saying: "When the Government wants it bad, it gets it bad."
(*) Actual statement owned by George Lucas (or is it Disney now?)
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Ah, but they only own one piece of it all, government wants access to it all
The Straight Story
Jun 2013
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Care to expound on that? Because I think I am far more up to date than you know
The Straight Story
Jun 2013
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