Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat?

Whitehead, John W.
http://dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/coronavirus-vs-the-mass-surveillance-state-which-poses-the-greater-threat/
Date Written:  2020-03-03
Publisher:  Dissident Voice
Year Published:  2020
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX24066

Emboldened by the citizenry's inattention and willingness to tolerate its abuses, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expands its powers. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state's hands.

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