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, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> RE.  "Bottom line, Joe Stalin would [have] loved it. Why should anyone have
> to say more?
>
> [WS:] This analogy is plain wrong. Joe Stalin did not have to *gather*
> information.  He and his security apparatus could *make stuff up* - no
> matter how absurd - to railroad their opponents to gulags.  You do not
> think that bogus charges of political incorrectness were based on any
> information gathering of the kind that the NSA is doing.
>

^^^^^^
CB:Actually, the US secret police forces, FBI, CIA, NSA, state and
local police have a history of making things up worse than Stalin and
his posse.

The main concern with the NSA thingy here is that they might in the
future under a fascist Republican make stuff up on the left.