Welcome to the United States of America. The rules are:
- every person is assigned a number, and this number is your ID
- all of your communications, including email, phone calls, etc, can be monitored with no notice and no warrant
- your reading choices at the library can be monitored without notice
- you can be searched at any time, without a warrant, including your car
- your sex acts are controlled and restricted. What you do, how you do it, who you do it with.
- you can only ingest approved substances (ie, tobacco, alcohol), and ingesting other natural substances can get you thrown into prison.
- you can be declared an enemy of the State, and taken in the middle of the night, imprisoned without charges and without legal representation, for as long as the State wants
- you can be flown to a “black site” where you can be tortured with no recourse
- you will pay a lot of taxes (sales, income, fees, etc), but have no right to health care
Ain’t Freedom grand?
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A simple blog from Austin, touching on all kinds of things. Mostly political.