I was told many moons ago by someone that worked for one of the alphabet agencies in DC controlled by the government that if the American public even knew 25% of what the US government does within our borders and what it was capable of, you wouldn't want to live here. And here it is many moons later, and from what I've witnessed in the last 50 or so years, I believe him now more than ever.........

Is This the Start of an American Stasi?

In January, Glenn Ellmers and Ted Richards argued at length on this site that America was rapidly becoming a “soft totalitarian” state. Their essay was a response to former Mitt Romney advisor Gabriel Schoenfeld and others who have spent the last several years asserting that the right is simply paranoid about the “deep state,” and that concerns about abuses of power are overblown. 

https://tomklingenstein.com/is-this-the-...qS37cnZEad

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