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Big Brother Is Watching You
Reason Magazine ^ | 05/25/2011 | A. Barton Hinkle

Posted on 05/25/2011 8:43:55 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour

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1 posted on 05/25/2011 8:43:56 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Then I'm inflicting extreme torture on Big Brother with my banal and boring life.

And if I don't want him looking, it's not that hard to arrange. ;)

Who the hell does the government think invents and builds their spy devices? Hint: Us freedom loving people in fly-over country.

/johnny

2 posted on 05/25/2011 8:48:22 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Well plz do us a favor and stop building them, please...


3 posted on 05/25/2011 8:49:34 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: JRandomFreeper
"Who the hell does the government think invents and builds their spy devices? Hint: Us freedom loving people in fly-over country."

Some of whom will gladly put a government contract over the rights of their fellow citizens.

4 posted on 05/25/2011 8:55:20 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
We are all watching each other.

Soon everything will be live feed to remote servers and various home based units that will record every bit in HD and surround sound audio.

5 posted on 05/25/2011 8:57:58 PM PDT by mmercier
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

He is? He must be bored $#!tless.

I know I am.


7 posted on 05/25/2011 9:08:18 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: mmercier
that will record every bit in HD and surround sound audio.

Does that mean I can find out where I put my lower dentures almost a month ago? Can you check that feed and tell me what I did with them? Because I could use them. Really.

/johnny

8 posted on 05/25/2011 9:10:42 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: mmercier

I’m always telling my kids the government is watching us through the Kinect for the X-Box.


9 posted on 05/25/2011 9:12:30 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Bockscar

“If”

lol!


10 posted on 05/25/2011 9:18:32 PM PDT by TauntedTiger (Keep away from the fence!)
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To: Joe 6-pack
It is not possible for the government to control this population by any known mechanism available, short of nuclear annihilation.

The desire to believe that such control is possible is simply a desire to believe there is human control mechanism.

We are about 400 million individual contributors, and every last mother loving one of us pretty much does whatever we want whenever we want. Control is granted by the individuals willingness to submit. When laws are unjust, or arbitrarily enforced, the willingness to submit to authority degrades. Peruse some of the posts on this site.

We are blessed by the reality that our population is, for the most part, civil.

11 posted on 05/25/2011 9:32:05 PM PDT by mmercier (the poop does not go back into the pony)
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To: ilovesarah2012

When I was a kid watching Romper Room and she said happy birthday Michael on my birthday, I freaked. Took me years before I would walk in front of the television naked.


12 posted on 05/25/2011 9:45:06 PM PDT by mmercier
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

I don’t know if there have been any federal cases about X-raying cars that managed to bubble up to the USSC; however there was a case at the USSC several years ago that put the nix on using heat scanners on houses to identify energy-hungry indoor marijuana farms sans search warrant.


13 posted on 05/25/2011 9:52:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: ilovesarah2012
I'm always telling my kids the government is watching us through the Kinect for the X-Box.

They actually do.

BTW, I like what you've done to the room:)

14 posted on 05/25/2011 9:56:54 PM PDT by Ken H
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It is not possible for the government to control this population by any known mechanism available, short of nuclear annihilation.

If you truly believe what you just wrote, you are not thinking clearly. We are controlled right now. An NBA player cannot be seen to mouth the word faggot. We cannot write or say the -N- word, and if we decide to sell our personal belonging to a neighbor, the govt could tax us on the proceeds, or fine us for not having the proper license. These are just a few of the easily thought of instances of control. How about putting a roof over your deck? Breeding your dog, and having the pups at home? Painting your house if it was built before 1979?

15 posted on 05/25/2011 10:07:49 PM PDT by runninglips (Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics.)
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You are controlled to the extent you are willing to care about and comply with these things.

Do neither, you will live longer and happier.

So far, no SWAT team has come to take me out because I refuse to register my dogs.

Funniest thing is watching a fat cop chase my unregistered dog down the street every time they see him out. If they get him, it costs me $80, or they will kill him. He is the fastest little bastard anyone will ever see. They Know him... And he knows them.

I just say... “What dog.. I ain't got no dog..?” when he makes it under the shed ahead of fatboy.

There is one that can get him... They are friends... Another $80..

16 posted on 05/25/2011 11:13:54 PM PDT by mmercier (otherwise, the bar is ours)
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To: JRandomFreeper

A week or so back I could not understand why the alarm on my phone did not sound.

I dropped into a glass of water next to the bed.

I freak out when I lose things.


17 posted on 05/26/2011 12:36:58 AM PDT by mmercier
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
The Nazis didn't break any laws. They made the laws that allowed them to act as they did.

That is the part people need to remember and be wary of.

18 posted on 05/26/2011 3:50:31 AM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: mmercier

LOL - I remember that! When she would happen to say my name, I was sure she could see me!


19 posted on 05/26/2011 4:42:39 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

I’m waiting for the day that our own children are programmed to report our most private conversations, actions and thoughts to the “government” by our indoctrination centers (public schools).

Hitler’s youth = Obama’s youth.

Or should that be O’Bama’s youth since he has become an Irishman?


20 posted on 05/26/2011 5:18:01 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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