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		rockyleal on Sept 24, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Leak shows EU's plans for large scale surveillance... "Chinese method"? I'm sorry to break it like this to you, but you have just described the West.

greenyoda on Sept 24, 2012 [–]

Exactly. This describes what's happening right here in the U.S.

See, for example these articles:

Revisiting the Explosive Growth of Federal Crimes

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/06/revisiting-...

The Expanding Federal Police Power

http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb105-17.html

And the U.S. has a much higher percentage of its population in prison than China does:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23pri...

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