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upload it to a huge database and say oh these

were

all the people who were seen at the peace

rally

or this was all the people seen at the Democratic

national convention whatever it might be.

I think surveillance and tyranny or surveillance

and the loss of freedom really go hand in

hand.

When you look at other civilizations other

societies over

the years all the way up into the twentieth

century there's

this really strong link between autocratic

or despotic or

excessive government power and at the same

time all sorts of

surveillance mechanisms whether they're secret

police or

national ID cards or other kinds of mechanisms

that are designed

to make sure that people are being watched

and perhaps

even more insidious that they know they're

being watched.

Won't all this surveillance and technology

make us safer from crime,

isn't it a good idea to watch everybody and

monitor everything they do?

If that were the case, then you should be

able to look back and

say okay, well let's look at the most monitored

and surveilled

people in history and arguably that was the

Soviets living under

the Soviet Union under Stalin and the folks

who came after that

every phone call could be listened to, every

piece of postal mail

could be opened if you had a party at your

house you wouldn't

know if government enforcement where at the

party listening, you

know after-all if you have nothing to hide

why would you care?

But the Soviet Union under Stalin was the

most deadly regime in all of history.

In fact under that regime with all of that

watching sixty million people perished.

Sixteen million people were killed by their

own government, by

the very government that was supposed to be

protecting them.

You know the bad guy might today be Al-Qaeda

and

it might tomorrow be fundamentalist Baptists.

You take homeland security who issued a report

that said those people

who own guns, those people who are antiabortion,

those people who are

the tax protesters, and all kinds of Americans

are all really terrorists

in waiting and attempts should be made to

silence those people.

The MIAC report which was from the Missouri

Information Awareness

Center, it was a report put out for law enforcement

that was actually

leaked into the public sphere and it was defining

potential domestic

terrorists and disturbingly this MIAC report

was listing people

who could be your next-door neighbour even

you, they were listing

people you know, anybody who is concerned

about constitutional issues

anybody who supported Chuck Baldwin or Ron

Paul anybody who was a

Libertarian or Constitutionalist people who

weren't just mainstream

Republican Democrats, anyone, the part that

shocked me was anyone

concerned about RFID privacy you know so that's

me that's what I work

on and I'm certainly not a domestic terrorist,

people who we're concerned

about abortion and issues around that people

who are wanting to

defended there second-amendment rights which

are constitutionally

protected your right to own and bare arms

all of those people were

identified as potential domestic terrorists

and in this report that was

going on to law enforcement they were being

told to watch out for us.

To look for people who share those characteristics.

How much additional security do you get by

having so much less privacy?

It a really fundamental question and it is

always easy to say I don't really care

I want the government to know everything just

keep the bad guys away, keep the

terrorists away, our history tends to demonstrate

that governments re-purpose

information, they get information for one

purpose and they use it for something else.

The unchecked surveillance tends in the long-run

to

cost us more than the security that we gain

from it.

We would like to know how they define the

bad guys, you see in Germany that was true

to, the bad guys they were Jews and murdered

six million of them by whose authority.

Well it's the common good that was a state

decision you know the whole

concept of master race all those ideas where

given the colour of law.

You see the way you persecute a people is

find out what they do discourage it,

marginalize them and then pass laws against

what they do and then enforce the laws.

When it came out that the government and the

census bureau was collecting the GPS

coordinates on everyone's front doors a lot

of us said why would you need that?

You have a street address, you clearly know

how to find the location or the census worker

couldn't have gotten there in the first-place,

so why would you need this extra step that's

costing an enormous sum of money the only

explanation that could occur to many of us

is

that they want to know the GPS coordinates

to

of your house so that they could target you.

And that sounds crazy but when you look over

what's happening in Pakistan and in Afghanistan

where there are unmanned aerial drones that

can literally target a home we regularly

hear about how houses that have been blown

up

by the military, there was a wedding party

going on in this house and then boom bombs

were dropped on it and it was blown up.

So I think there's a real question mark.

Now it becomes a question of whether or not

you trust the government.

The problem of governments is there made up

of people.

If you didn't have people in they'd probably

be okay but you know

as soon as you give a guy a little bit of

power well that's never

quite enough it becomes his mandate it's his

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more power.

One of the problems when you create these

technologies is

it's like putting a noose around your neck

and you may

think well gosh it's someone who I really

trust and where's

the danger but then that person you trust

goes away and

then someone else can rise to power we've

seen it happen

all over the globe we've seen it happen century

after

century where evil people have this bizarre

tendency to

rise into the positions of power and authority

over others.

You look at what Hitler was able to do with

very

limited technology, he was able to pinpoint

a

single person and destroy large numbers of

people

that he just personally decided he didn't

like.

That capability that he had back in the nineteen

forties and then multiply that exponentially

in terms of what could be done today you could

turn people into none entities,

you wouldn't even have to kill them you could

just make it so they couldn't access the

ATM machine they couldn't go to the grocery

store they couldn't get to see the doctor.

So I think the bigger picture and what we

need

to be thinking about as a society today is

we

really should not be creating the power to

destroy

our lives and putting it into anyone's hands.

Whether you trust the current administration

or not is really irrelevant

because ultimately I believe there will be

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