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3. The United States of America is now a surveillance state.

Reply to PowerToThePeople (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2013, 03:56 AM

Oct 2013

Let that sink in a bit.

The United States of America is now a surveillance state.

Corporate rule is a cancer destroying this country. This country is by now so deeply and pervasively corrupted that we have a 24/7 propaganda machine arguing with us that it's no big deal.

The propaganda machine lies.

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