Until the people at the levers of government are watched at least as closely as the rest of us, it's FASCISM, NOT Democracy.

Spymaster, spy upon yourself.

Pre-"Juvenal".

Let me reply with another juvenal comment:

"No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly."

I'd like to hope it is true, but I have doubts.

Juvenal

valid defense known as ENTRAPMENT?

via a large number of court decisions. The FBI in particular seems to have made an industry of setting people up with the trappings of terrorism & then busting them with bombs that they had given them.

Orwell rolls in his grave.

Corporate-fascist police state.

If he only had a crystal ball.....

But he had no idea what technology would do for Big Brother...but the results are the same.

The Rs always think that there is someone stealing their money and developed some new form of paperwork to find the thief. That is what is behind all this spying on everyone they can. It is just a newer form of surveillance. Only now it is not just about stealing money it is now also about the perceived threat to the power of the 1%. On the other side of the coin government is also afraid of threats to its power. So if it is not the Rs trying to spy on us it is our own government.

They have swag and talk big, drive nice vehicle, dude all tatted up carrying a gun but he is a narc. I know of 2 people who fell for this and, sadly, were sent to prison for short terms out of fear of what the alternative sentencing guidlines would be if they were convicted. In both cases the "dealer," fronted them pounds of marijuana and made sure the deal happened that was prepared with a dozen cops. Basically, both people who fell for this are pretty harmless folk, messed up, but not immoral, horrible people. They are making criminals where none existed and its a business.