"More than anything else a surveillance state and a police state instills a climate of fear in citizens."
And the rate of surveillance is growing. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EANQ76_GVrY/T00pjNtrerI/AAAAAAABRhI/8tW0j158cC4/s400/Droen.jpg Note that the image above is not a sanctioned sign. It is symbolic of what is happening. So, which candidate is for reducing domestic and international surveillance? J - No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance. And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil. And where would the ordinary simple folk the common people, as they like to call them in America where would they be, once this mighty organism had got them in its grip? - Winston Churchill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347738 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
