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I tried to submit this hours ago but nobody upvoted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core "As of 2008 there were re

by gasull 13y ago

I tried to submit this hours ago but nobody upvoted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core "As of 2008 there were reportedly eight million Americans listed in the database as possible threats, often for trivial reasons, whom the government may choose to track, question, or detain in a time of crisis." We are more than half way in the road to serfdom and tyranny. EDIT: Resubmitted now as "http" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5878571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5878571

jlgreco 13y ago
2.5% of the entire US population. Jesus christ...
- deleted 13y ago
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- stackedmidgets 13y ago
  I'll be sorely disappointed in myself if I'm not on the list.
rokhayakebe 13y ago
We are more than half way in the road to serfdom and tyranny. This is a good time to re-read Book 8 of the Republic (Socrates by way of Plato). The current political situation of the world is being decribed as if they were teleported 2000+ years, then went back to write what they saw.
- horacio 13y ago
  There's never a bad time to re-read this classic. Here's one link to the entire book: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html
waterlesscloud 13y ago
Recently a friend was writing a screenplay for a nuclear terrorism thriller. To help him out, I did a lot of research on nuclear weapons manufacture. Lots of googling, reading particular research papers and so on. I joked that he'd better appreciate the lists I was willing to put myself on for him, but maybe it wasn't that much of a joke.
justincormack 13y ago
This happened in Switzerland back in the 1980s and was discovered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal
digitalengineer 13y ago
"The Road to Serfdom" you say? Here is the illustrated version: http://mises.org/books/trts/ http://mises.org/books/trts/
eliasmacpherson 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St... is there any overlap with that list and people incarcerated already?

by gasull 13y ago

jlgreco 13y ago

2.5% of the entire US population. Jesus christ...

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stackedmidgets 13y ago
I'll be sorely disappointed in myself if I'm not on the list.

rokhayakebe 13y ago

We are more than half way in the road to serfdom and tyranny. This is a good time to re-read Book 8 of the Republic (Socrates by way of Plato). The current political situation of the world is being decribed as if they were teleported 2000+ years, then went back to write what they saw.

horacio 13y ago
There's never a bad time to re-read this classic. Here's one link to the entire book: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html

waterlesscloud 13y ago

Recently a friend was writing a screenplay for a nuclear terrorism thriller. To help him out, I did a lot of research on nuclear weapons manufacture. Lots of googling, reading particular research papers and so on. I joked that he'd better appreciate the lists I was willing to put myself on for him, but maybe it wasn't that much of a joke.

justincormack 13y ago

This happened in Switzerland back in the 1980s and was discovered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal

digitalengineer 13y ago

"The Road to Serfdom" you say? Here is the illustrated version: http://mises.org/books/trts/ http://mises.org/books/trts/

eliasmacpherson 13y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St... is there any overlap with that list and people incarcerated already?