[url=http://meincmagazine.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=25008631#p25008631:3uq4y5g6 said:
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[url=http://meincmagazine.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=25008301#p25008301:3uq4y5g6 said:
..BlahBlahBlah[/url]":3uq4y5g6]We have widespread hunger. A grossly disproportionate distribution of wealth and a disappearing middle class. Collapsing transportation infrastructure. Countless inner city neighborhoods that look like war zones. One of the highest infant mortality rates in the western world. One of the lowest math, science and reading rankings in the western world. The highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. Yet we keep throwing money at surveillance/homeland security. It's beyond baffling.
No kidding. Doesn't sound like much of a home worth securing nowadays does it? :-(
We are spending all this time/money trying to stop the "unintended consequences" of the decisions being made, instead of targeting the cause of these problems directly.
Well, that's the genious of it all. You get all this stuff in place to "find and combat terrorism", but really it's a prep to keep the masses, that are slowly getting desperate, in check when the time comes. Frogs are boiled slowly. You can't create a police state over-night; folks would rebel. But, when you do it to "combat terrorism" and "protect the citizens" (that are having a hard time finding jobs, earning a living wage, raising a family, fending off criminals, being abused by political schemes, etc, etc) then you can slowly indoctrinate them into a police state.
I remember my humanities teacher saying about a country taking over another country ... the first generation experiences oppression, the second generation experiences acceptance, the third generation experiences assimilation. (Something like that).
People today are upset over what's going on, b/c they see the change. But, people tomorrow (kids today) won't be. They will have been raised in an environment that already has all of this in place. And they will just accept it as common place.
Now get back to work, Citizen 092834. Your 10% behind quota for the day. You don't want another demerit, do you? Your family won't get food for today if you do.
