It must be in human nature that whoever gets to power immediately starts craving more and more control. The fear of not knowing what is going on in citizens' minds must be unbearable. Just over a decade after the demise of the KGB as a not so successful attempt to keep people's minds in check, its very original foe, the US, introduces the Patriot Act that aims at the exactly same objective. UK, the 51st state of the current Empire of Evil, achieves the highest density of CCTV cameras per capita. The Culture of Fear is slowly creeping up on the European continent too: even water bottles and nail-clippers are potential weapons these days.
But the most fierce opponents and decriers of the Western democracies' newest trends in mass conscious control and manipulation are guilty of the same crime. Our flamboyant Mr. Hugo Chavez who rose to power as the champion against the malign US influence in Central and South America is currently trying to institute an anti-spy law. The gist of it is: "if you don't squeal, you'll get in the dock" - not cooperating with intelligence agencies will land you for 4 years behind the bars. I remember how I used to morally side with Chavez's cause but now he too is going down the typical power usurper's way.
Quickly spreading worldwide paranoia as well as technological advances are getting all sides to beef up on surveillance. It's a new arms race and the loser this time will be the common-and-garden Joe like you and me as now it is a perfect perpetual war and its real objective, as unobtainable as it may be or seem, is a total subjugation of your mind. Globalist or anti-globalist, militant communist or hard-nosed Neo-Con, they all are after your brains.
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