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GT40FIED · 09-10-2006, 08:08 PM

No...I'm not worried about people tapping my phone. It's merely an example of something that's clearly illegal but some people have accepted because they've been tricked into believing certain things.

Like I said, I draw two seperate distinctions between government power. In terms of physical power I think we're right about where we were 50 years ago. However, in terms of psychological power they're far more powerful than the government of 50 years ago. Honestly, I don't see the possibility of people (read: muslims/middle easterners) being put into camps as such an implausible event. We've already got Guantanamo Bay (a.k.a. Camp X-Ray) that's full of arabs and I don't think it's so impossible to ponder if we'd ever have camps on U.S. soil. Do I think it will happen? Probably not. But people here have been tricked into becoming so incredibly ethnocentric and xenophobic that the smallest event would likely cause a huge backlash making way for such a thing to happen.

09-10-2006, 08:08 PM	#14
GT40FIED Best...mod...ever Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: At the end of the longest line Age: 42 Posts: 7,451	No...I'm not worried about people tapping my phone. It's merely an example of something that's clearly illegal but some people have accepted because they've been tricked into believing certain things. Like I said, I draw two seperate distinctions between government power. In terms of physical power I think we're right about where we were 50 years ago. However, in terms of psychological power they're far more powerful than the government of 50 years ago. Honestly, I don't see the possibility of people (read: muslims/middle easterners) being put into camps as such an implausible event. We've already got Guantanamo Bay (a.k.a. Camp X-Ray) that's full of arabs and I don't think it's so impossible to ponder if we'd ever have camps on U.S. soil. Do I think it will happen? Probably not. But people here have been tricked into becoming so incredibly ethnocentric and xenophobic that the smallest event would likely cause a huge backlash making way for such a thing to happen. __________________ 1984 1/2 Mustang GT350 #842, Faster than you...nuff said Anna Fan Club President/Dictator Someday, in the event that mankind actually figures out what it is that this world actually revoles around, thousands of people are going to be shocked and perplexed that it was not them. Sometimes this includes me. "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell Welcome to the new Amerika