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organicAnt  ·  3458 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The U.S. Government Is Suddenly Way, Way More Interested In Tracking Snail Mail

More importantly, what happened to innocent before proven guilty safeguard of the law? It feels like we've all suddenly become suspects without our own consent. How is this massive concentration of power in secret, unaccountable hands going to save us or national security from terrorism, I don't know. This whole apparatus seems more likely to be an organized machine of espionage for those already behind the wheels of concentrated financial and military power.