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Originally Posted by Joe Keegan
Essentially the reason for the spying is command and control fueled by fear, loathing, distrust, and paranoia. TPTB send out their minions (mandarin class)much in the manner as the King's men performed kingly functions that were beneath their Sire. We're becoming 3 classes: the elite, mandarin class (officialdom),and serfs in a hi-tech new feudalism.
Check out Orwell's 1984 (or rather, 1948) : Inner Party, Outer Party, Proles.

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We've been a police state for quite some time.
That's the truth.