...we have a widespread network of surveillance cameras across America monitoring us and reporting suspicious activity back to a centralized analysis center, mixed in with the ability to imprison people via military force on the basis of suspicious activity alone. I don't see how that could possibly go wrong. Nope, not at all. We all know the government, and algorithmic computer programs, never make mistakes.
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Yeup
slimey 40 weeks 21 hours 15 min 43 sec ago
People everywhere need to figure out what to do about it and soon.
It's 1984 meets Idiocracy...
nickfro 40 weeks 23 hours 32 min 55 sec ago
...between TrapWire and the NDAA, I'd say we have officially gone past the point of no return. A computerized system to determine if you might be a criminal and a law that allows you to be indefinitely detailed based on that suspicion? Sign me up. Oh wait, I'm already signed up. We all are. (And, of course, the MSM is ignoring this...but hey, the Olympics and Paul Ryan's hair!)