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Google's CEO Offers 'Blame the Victim Argument' for Technological Police State

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"Acting in concert with private corporations, "transactional data" such as credit card purchases, bank transactions and travel itineraries are sold to NSA by corporate freebooters. Once this information is obtained, it is then fed into data mining programs, including NSA's own Terrorist Surveillance Program or the FBI's Digital Collection System formerly known as Carnivore in a quixotic search for "suspicious patterns." As the Journal revealed".....Source: globlalresearch.ca

It is not a sign of a defective personality, engaged in dysfunctional and possibly criminal behaviors, if you want privacy. Hopefully we won't allow ourselves to be made to feel dirty and defective for wanting what is a basic human right. But look for the 'Blame the Victim Argument'--You are to blame if you want privacy--to pop up more and more as the American people realize that they have no privacy.

It is a standard device for abusers to blame the victim, and that is just what we are seeing today in America's Technological Police State.

Don't buy into it.

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