How do you survive in the American police state?
Creepy, Calculating and Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You
By John W. Whitehead February 16, 2015
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became
instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and,
except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984
None of us are perfect. All of us bend the rules occasionally. Even
before the age of overcriminalization, when the most upstanding citizen
could be counted on to break at least three laws a day without knowing
it, most of us have knowingly flouted the law from time to time.
Indeed, there was a time when most
Americans thought nothing of driving a few miles over the speed limit,
pausing (rather than coming to a full stop) at a red light when making a
right-hand turn if no one was around, jaywalking across the street, and
letting their kid play hookie from school once in a while. Of course,
that was before the era of speed cameras that ticket you for going even a
mile over the posted limit, red light cameras that fine you for making
safe “rolling stop” right-hand turns on red, surveillance cameras
equipped with facial recognition software mounted on street corners, and
school truancy laws that fine parents for “unexcused” absences.
My, how times have changed.
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