Why does the government need to know what we say in private? Even the government itself reserves the right to privacy by refusing to share sensitive information with the public. What right does the government have to spy on its people? The threat of terror?
Let's consider the threat of terror for a moment. If the government needs to know what its citizens say in private to avert a potential threat to its citizens, it is essentially saying that it cannot, or will not, trust its citizens. That it's us versus the government.
Now that's a scarier thought than terrorism.
But let's also consider this: who runs the government? Corporations. So in essence we are saying that corporations have the government spy on us to suppress any rebellion against their unjust labor practices and their relentless destruction of our common resources. In other words, we are all potential terrorist in the eyes of the corporations, and their trusted servants - the letter people - do the job they are paid to do: keep the corporations safe. And who pays for all of this? We do.
Talk about irony.
But really, it shouldn't surprise us that corporations have the government spying on us, for corporations do not have a loyalty to any specific country. In this aspect they are perhaps the most egalitarian of them all, except that they have a sinister motivation for their desire to see the world unified under one umbrella: it is so much easier to exploit people if there is no such thing as local laws that people get to vote on. If corporations get to make the rules, who will overthrow them?
We do still have one thing in our favor: there are seven billion of us, and only a few thousand of them. No amount of fear will keep us down forever when we find our strength in unity. And so we have. From one end of the world to the other, people are rising up and reclaiming their right to live without the tyranny of fear. For really, a life lived in fear is not lived, it is wasted.
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