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>>317311

"The surveillance capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything… There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

… I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency [NSA] and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return."

–Senator Frank Church, 1975

>>317307

>>317311

>>317325

"Too many people have been spied upon by too many government agencies and too much information has been collected. The government has often undertaken the secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs pose no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power …. Investigations have been based upon vague standards whose breadth made excessive collection inevitable. Unsavory and vicious tactics have been employed - including anonymous attempts to break up marriages, disrupt meetings, ostracize persons from their professions, and provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in deaths. Intelligence agencies have served the political and personal objectives of presidents and other high officials … Government officials - including those whose principal duty is to enforce the law - have violated or ignored the law over long periods of time and have advocated and defended their right to break the law."

–Senator Frank Church, 1976

"By the "US. national security state" I mean to the Executive Office of the White House, the National Security Council (NSC), National Security Administration, Central Intelligence Agency, Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other such units that are engaged in surveillance, suppression, covert action, and forceful interventions abroad and at home."

–Michael Parenti

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>>317333

Add to this the newly acquired capabilities of the healthcare delivery sector and it's expansive and omnipresent Electronic Healthcare Records systems and you have a total information awareness apparatus able to provide detailed profile information on anyone who has interacted with that system from birth to death.

Using this as a foundation for basic data, any government agency could compile profiles that would contain all known contacts, affiliations, and proclivities.

On anyone.

For any reason.

Or no reason.

That data could then be fed back into the system and used to affect the quality of healthcare services anyone receives.

And since doctors are dependent on state licensure to earn a living, cooperation with such directives would become a matter of routine, no matter the consequences to any individual patient.

>>317337

Methinks the LOBBY will strongly disagree and use all the leverage at their disposal to maintain the status quo in their favor.

And since Senators and Congress persons need healthcare also, it is highly unlikely any of them will rock this particular boat.