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Back during the Bush/Republican controlled post 911 era, more or less conscientious Democrats repeatedly plead with the Republicans busy ramrodding the wave of surveillance state enablement to "not implement anything you would not want YOUR WORST ENEMY to be able to USE AGAINST YOU". Those Cheney:Bush/neocon beholden Republicans effectively ignored those pleas... Guess what happened when the worm turned?

It is now time for EVERYONE, Republicans, Democrats, independents/3rd parties and all to consider those pleas:

Look at the legal machinery and police state infrastructure being constructed in Washington and at the UN- And consider WHAT COULD IT DO TO YOU if YOU become a "person of interest".

Because, baby, we are now ALL "persons of interest"

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We are all persons of interest and we are also becoming more interested in the machinery of the political system and the institutions that service its power. The mass of society are becoming more sophisticated and increasingly curious in deciphering truth from fiction by consuming vast amounts of information-scientific, social and political that shed light on the reality of so called western democratic societies, particularly social issues or public issues which are then societal issues of structure, organisation and processes which lie beyond the control of the individual in their personal circumstance. The democratic franchise that was once hailed as the means that held the possibility to affect change of these circumstances seems to most of the electorate as being contractually void, the social contract is shattered and now are sceptical that democracy may hold a remedy.

The cartelisation of mass political parties has fostered a hubris among the political class that no matter the irrationality of what they say or do they are immune from accountability.

They are wrong, maybe not in the short term, however in the long term, just like those corporations that poison the ecosystem in nearby human settlements that then manifests as birth defects, unusually high levels of illness and chronic conditions, as is known in ethnological studies those communities then throw out personalities, who make the connection.

They initially make it by heuristics and then by the rapid consumption of scientific literature. During this period they are made to wait, as we are now, by constant deflection via institutional structures and so called professionals eg, scientist, journalists, lawyers, politicians and medical professional that populate these institutions which are often as toxic as the environment that those unfortunates reside.

The institutions and professionals are then part of what influences local knowledge whether implicitly or explicitly they all converge to toxify the reality and danger those populations are subject to. Waiting for more testing political inaction and corruption that is in service to the economy and relegates local wellbeing to a nonevent. And in this recognition, there is in the environmental justice paradigm, a mobilization of individuals that are made up of concerned citizens that then become mobilized. Generally consisting of irate housewives who are then morphed into activists and in the case of our political ecosystem that has been poisoned by the owners of FINCAP, the same conditions are apparent.

However these personalities are not only irate house-wife's but their family, neighbours, community and wider society WHICH will mobilise and take on the task with a no retreat attitude fixed on accountability.

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I appreciate finding this response to my month old comment. But?

Perhaps that epic tour de force were better employed as an article & shared to all?

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I was just freestyling, "tour de force", I'm not sure if that's sarcasm or a well meaning reply to my late night ranting. Although, at a cursory glance the content stands firm and is applicable contemporaneously. I am not even sure at this point how I stumbled on this comment section, although it was fun replying.

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