Thoughts To Ponder

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We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government." - William Orville Douglas - (October 16, 1898 - January 19, 1980) served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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"The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable." -Anon., U. S. Privacy Study Commission, 1977

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"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority." - Ben Franklin

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"Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped" - Edward Snowden - NSA whistleblower

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"Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself": Francis Meehan

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"Only the winners decide what were war crimes." - Gary Wills - Author:

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"Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty." - George W. Bush

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"Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly." - Charles Fort

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"Why would the US try to win a war? War is an assembly line of death that is highly profitable for politicians and weapons manufacturers. An ongoing war is a conveyer belt of cash. Once your war is won, the assembly line has stopped and the big money is gone." - Jarod Kintz

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"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the [public] is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country." - Edward Bernays