The Secret Surveillance Catalogue
So, let&#x27;s get this out of the way: will the people who are going to argue that the US is not a police state please step forward and address this damning evidence? The only way we know about this stuff is by someone deciding to play outside the rules and inform the public directly.<p>The security services and police are wildly out of control and have been intensely surveilling and scrutinizing the content of innocent people&#x27;s communications without any oversight. This clearly doesn&#x27;t make us any safer, as there have been two terrorist attacks on US soil during the era in which these totalitarian abuses have happened, so that argument can be discarded.<p>In short, we don&#x27;t have security (nor could we ever have perfect security), and they&#x27;ve taken our liberty without our permission. Disgusting abuse of democracy. How can people attend a political rally or do any political activity when they know that their attendance and discussions are going to be analyzed for weaknesses by a malevolent third party?