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by anigbrowl 9 days ago
Oh, only 800? Maybe you can pick a larger imaginary number to make me feel really guilty about not wanting to give up my rights to live free of surveillance.
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I mean yeah, but I don't need to. These cameras ARE already the result of 9/11.
Weird justification since 9/11 was a plane hijacking, not something on the streets.
They wrote a 600 page report about it and it included a ton of recommendations. Not many people remember at this point, but for months and even a few years after, the entire country was on edge about it happening again, in different means (trains, car wrecks on purpose, shootings). There is a reason they have called this a post-911 world ever since. That hasn't ended.
You forgot the paranoia after it. Along with surrendering anything in the name of anti-terrorist measures. And protecting children.