Electronic Police State

An electronic police state is characterized by this:
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State use of electronic technologies to record, organize, search and distribute forensic evidence against its citizens.
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The two crucial facts about the information gathered under an electronic police state are these:
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1. It is criminal evidence, ready for use in a trial.
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2. It is gathered universally (“preventively”) and only later organized for use in prosecutions.
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In an Electronic Police State
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Every surveillance camera recording
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Every email sent
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Every Internet site surfed
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Every post made
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Every check written
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Every credit card swipe
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Every cell phone ping…
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are all criminal evidence, and all are held in searchable databases.
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The individual can be prosecuted whenever the government wishes.
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Long-term, the Electronic Police State destroys free speech
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The right to petition the government for redress of grievances, and other liberties.
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Worse, it does so in a way that is difficult to identify.
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The Police State can see no other option as it's own paranoia dictates ever more control
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Ever more surveillance
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There is no way back for the Police State
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It's own inertia makes change impossible
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We are way way down this road now

Way way down it