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damnedifIknow

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Fri Feb 28, 2014, 12:09 AM Feb 2014

“The NSA May Enable a Police State”: Former Counter-Terror Czar

“Once You Give Up Your Rights, You Can Never Get Them Back. Once You Turn On That Police State, You Can Never Turn It Off.”

Richard Clarke is one of the four White House panelists on NSA spying, and the former top counter-terror czar in the Clinton and Bush administrations."

Revelations about NSA monitoring activities over the last year show the potential for a police state mechanism, according to the former U.S. cybersecurity czar, but there is still time to avoid the dire consequences.

“[T]hey have created, with the growth of technologies, the potential for a police state.”

And a former top NSA official said that we’ve already got a police state. He told Washington’s Blog:

I am glad he [Clarke] also understands the threat to democracy.

The only reason I recognized that in 2001 is because I worked the Soviet problem for close to 30 years … and what NSA was doing was exactly what the Soviet’s tried to do (as well as the Stasi and the Gestapo/SS).

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-nsa-may-enable-a-police-state-former-counter-terror-czar/5371149

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“The NSA May Enable a Police State”: Former Counter-Terror Czar (Original Post) damnedifIknow Feb 2014 OP
We already exist in a proto police state. All we have to wait for is it to evolve. Gravitycollapse Feb 2014 #1
I agree damnedifIknow Feb 2014 #2
Shock Doctrine, bay-bee! blkmusclmachine Feb 2014 #3
My answer is both damnedifIknow Feb 2014 #4
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