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> This issue is bigger than just voting in new politicians.

If you kick out enough politicians in a Democracy, you get a completely new majority government. We need to kick out about 55% of Congress.



But aside from that you have corporations profiting from surveillance, numerous gov't employees and contractors involved, judges receiving perks and legal bribes, existing surveillance legislation and court precedent, state and local employees/contractors (from traffic cops to fusion center workers) whose work is based on surveillance data, foreign governments who do much of the same the US does, a media that has been bought off and consolidated.


Yes. And with the right laws you can reduce that to reasonable levels.


A number of those laws already exist, but are ignored or have exploitable loopholes. How do you know define reasonable assumption for getting a warrant to search someones home? If you need tangible evidence for that, then the warrant is basically pointless because you ahve what you need already.

PCI compliance for instace is clearly being violated here, as are numerous data protection acts; the issue is that nobody is accountable for it


> A number of those laws already exist, but are ignored or have exploitable loopholes.

You need to replace Congress to close loopholes. You need to replace the President & Congress to replace the Supreme Court & enforce the laws.

Seems all politics to me.


And what to do with the executive? And what do you with the legislative? Only the supreme court can be replaced by politicians.

There's no other way out than start telling people the truth. Which might start with independent media and education. But US people are already even more indoctrinated than in the 30ies with Goebbels.

Seems all press and misinformation to me.


> And what to do with the executive? And what do you with the legislative? Only the supreme court can be replaced by politicians.

Read up. :/ I already said that.

> Which might start with independent media and education. But US people are already even more indoctrinated than in the 30ies with Goebbels.

That's ridiculous.




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