>the surveillance state that's developing you mean has been developed and deployed and actively in use for over a decade, and is continually expanding even now

>the surveillance state that's developing you mean has been developed and deployed and actively in use for over a decade, and is continually expanding even now? you can have oppression without murder, or even without the threat of violence... surveillance is a subtle tyrant, but don't mistake that for meaning that it is any less destructive.