Dec. 6th, 2007

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http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=2694

Context: Thanks to the GPS required in your phone, the government could pinpoint you and vaporize you at any time with a death ray from space. Or at least they could, if they could ever get the death ray to work.

"But Chris," you say, "you are just being paranoid. The government would never vaporize their own citizens just for disagreeing with them."

Uh huh.

Like they would never hold prisoners without representation, or evidence, for an indeterminate time. Like they would never transport prisoners to other countries for the purpose of torture. Like they would never condone torture or call the Geneva Conventions "quaint." Like they would never go through your phone or internet records without a warrant. Like they would never reveal the identity of a covert agent because she was married to a diplomat who reported facts that contradicted their propaganda. Like they would never report false intelligence information to further the prosecution of a war. Like they would never pardon a traitor who revealed the identity of a covert agent. Like they would never claim fiscal responsibility while simultaneously doubling the national debt. Like they would never accuse a war hero who lost three limbs in combat of being a traitor. Like they wouldn't cause the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and thousands of American soldiers while claiming to be "pro life." Like they wouldn't call themselves "free market capitalists," then award no-bid contracts in the hundreds of billions to defense companies and oppose competitive bidding from pharmaceutical companies for the Medicare prescription program. Like they would never — well, what the hell wouldn't they do? I think vaporizing you from space is a minor infraction. And you are carrying the targeting device with you right now.


Do go read the rest of his post. It's a thing of beauty, especially the last few paragraphs.

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