{"id":58146,"date":"2021-06-04T18:14:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58146"},"modified":"2021-06-04T18:15:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:15:01","slug":"make-way-for-the-snitch-state-the-all-seeing-fourth-branch-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58146","title":{"rendered":"Make Way for the Snitch State: The All-Seeing Fourth Branch of Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

Make Way for the Snitch State: The All-Seeing Fourth Branch of Government<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u201cIt is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. As information itself becomes the largest business in the world, data banks know more about individual people than the people do themselves. The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.\u201d\u2014Marshall McLuhan,\u00a0From Cliche To Archetype<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We\u2019re being spied on by a domestic army of government snitches, spies and techno-warriors.<\/p>\n

This government of Peeping Toms is watching\u00a0everything<\/a>\u00a0we do, reading everything we write, listening to everything we say, and monitoring everything we spend.<\/p>\n

Beware of what you say, what you read, what you write, where you go, and with whom you communicate, because it is all being recorded, stored, and catalogued, and will be used against you eventually, at a time and place of the government\u2019s choosing.<\/p>\n

This far-reaching surveillance has paved the way for an\u00a0omnipresent, militarized fourth branch of government<\/a>\u2014the Surveillance State\u2014that came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum.<\/p>\n

Indeed, long before the National Security Agency (NSA) became the agency we loved to hate, the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration were\u00a0carrying out their own secret mass surveillance<\/a>\u00a0on an unsuspecting populace.<\/p>\n

Even agencies not traditionally associated with the intelligence community are part of the government\u2019s growing network of snitches and spies.<\/p>\n

Just about every branch of the government\u2014from the Postal Service to the Treasury Department and every agency in between\u2014now has its own surveillance sector<\/a>, authorized to spy on the American people…<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n

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Make Way for the Snitch State: The All-Seeing Fourth Branch of Government \u201cIt is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. As information itself becomes the largest business in the world, data banks know more about individual people than the people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13197,5570,551,31177,577,652,746,4622,6300],"class_list":["post-58146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-john-w-whitehead","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nisha-whitehead","tag-nsa","tag-privacy","tag-spying","tag-surveillance-state","tag-the-rutherford-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58148,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58146\/revisions\/58148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}