The Falling Times. Hyperbolic Invariants. OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics. The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous. It is unsurprising that the 9/11 attack fostered a massive expansion of America’s already sprawling Surveillance State.
But what is surprising, or at least far less understandable, is that this growth shows no signs of abating even as we approach almost a full decade of emotional and temporal distance from that event. The spate of knee-jerk legislative expansions in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 trauma—the USA PATRIOT Act—has actually been exceeded by the expansions of the last several years—first secretly and lawlessly by the Bush administration, and then legislatively and out in the open once Democrats took over control of the Congress in 2006. Salon.com. Alltop, all the top stories. Entertainment Weekly's EW.com. Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters.
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