Today Is the Day We Got Rid of the Surveillance State GDR

Post by nickpsecurity » Sat, Oct 03, 2015, 7:07 PM UTC

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #28

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"Our freedom of speech is actually greater now than it ever was, but to little avail." It is but it's orthogonal to avail. ;) The freedoms are necessary, the press part has to be solid, and the people have to take action. The press and action are the problems. Freedoms are doing their job of producing opportunities, which I act on regularly. "People forget, but the United States had strict censorship codes for all of…

Monarchy is not opposed to democracy, even if it's not a constitutional/ceremonial monarchy. Liechtenstein and Monaco are two countries with politically active monarchs, which are nevertheless democratic. Theocracies in practice are dictatorial, but nominally it just means your "constitution" would be a religious text. I agree those are undesirable. "Communist state" is an oxymoron, surely you mean Marxist-Leninist s…

Post by PythonicAlpha » Sat, Oct 03, 2015, 10:27 PM UTC

pvg wrote: post #32

PythonicAlpha wrote: post #19

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Nice stories will not bring freedom back! (do you also have arguments, instead of ignoring them?) Do you want to say, that Snowden, Manning and other Whistle blowers are not oppressed? Have you no eyes?? I guess not!! (and this is only one small example of oppression, that everybody knows but most just ignore -- to live without disturbance -- very much like the people in former Nazi Germany). To be clear about it: Wh…

I have, indeed, no eyes although I'm less sure about the laughs.