Heracleum Persicum wrote:
noddy, you have a very valid point
In most Western public places, roads, highway, traffic lights, buildings and and, you are watched 24/7 .. with your cell phone on, your Telcom knows 24/7 where you are with inches, paying with credit card (now, Europe making difficult any payment by cash) they know what you spend money on and where and when .. basically, THEY have profile of you better than you knowing yourself
All the above came CREEPING on us .. bit by bit they stuck in our as*s
Snowden is now the hay braking the camel back
This thing will morph to a revolt against all the above
Either "we the people" don't care being shafted, or people will rise up
we will see
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no straw will break the camel because their are too many different camels sharing the load.
everyone in the west is scared of some other group and generally speaking is quite happy with all the intrusion aslong as they believe the powers that be are focused on the other group and not theirs.
dont listen to the nonsense about freedom and crap, that hasnt been true for many generations now, westerners are sheltered, scared and childish and the thought of society being less controlling is absolutely terrifying to them.
they worship their fears like a god and call it progress.
every single one of these intrusions has some horror story of druggies or terrorists or pedophiles or nasty capialists or dole bludgers that caused the rules to change and its going to have to get a lot lot worse before they stop trying to fix everything with more government control.
for now, the authoritarian viewpoints in the progressive and conservative world are the dominant voices and anyone speaking up for freedom or personal liberty is laughed at as a loony.
if you want freedom, move to a third world country or live with the rednecks