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[kriskoekk]

“We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it

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[bluecansam]

It seems to me that one can argue that the government has always “spied on us,” and everyone knows about it/knew about it; those “crazy paranoids” are just being proven right. We get spied upon for varying reasons: suspicion of selling drugs, theft, child abuse, anti American intent, etc. The NSA, FBI, IRS, police, and our neighbors all pry into our lives at one point or another. I don’t feel like any liberties have been taken away. I can still write what I want, share with my friends any political ideas I have, listen to the television and watch anti war sentiments, shop where I will, protest whatever I want in a public forum, and so on. Bush listens day after day to people telling him he sucks, but you don’t see him pointing his finger and saying “he/she is a terrorist!” People even wear shirts that say “Bush isn’t my president,” as if they had a choice at this juncture. I can say as often as I want, “America sucks,” and I know nothing will happen to me, but if I walk into a store with a masque on, I expect to get arrested