In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A. ("almost a parallel Supreme Court")

[Javaman]

58. If you ever read Gulag Archipelago..

You would see the frightening similarities.

We aren't quite at that point just yet, but but we are getting there.

in the book there was a think called "article 58" which was a blanket "law" that allowed the soviet authorities to jail you for just about anything they wanted and then used it as an excuse for something you did against the soviet state.

leading to a slippery slope? Ha, that's a laugh, we are on our stomachs sliding head first into the pit, all the while, the people of this nation are kept divided and the talking heads on the news discuss semantics while the politics take away our rights at the behest of their corporate masters.

I'm middle aged, I'll live experience some of the full on effect, but the next generation, who still have a echo of a faded image of what our actual freedoms are, will be thumbed down so that their children won't know any difference.