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Sci-Fi Stories That Predicted the Surveillance State
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Just to address one thing straight away: one of your favorite science fiction stories dealing, whether directly or indirectly, with surveillance is bound to be left off this list. And 1984's a given, so it's not here. At any rate, the following books deal in their own unique way with surveillance. Some address the surveillance head-on, while others speculate on inter-personal intelligence gathering, or consider the subject in more oblique ways. Still others distill surveillance down to its essence: as just one face of a much larger, all-encompassing system of control, that proceeds from the top of the pyramid down to its base."
The idea is that every citizen in the country has a right to bear arms so that, in the event the government decides they want power indefinitely and implements a new governmental structure, there are millions of guns and citizens to prevent them from outright declaring the constitution invalid.
Hahaha.....heh... you make me laugh, you're so cute...
Seriously though; you and what army? Let's assume each and every single gun owner in the country takes up arms against the government... how long do you think you'll stand a chance against armored vehicles with non-lethal sound weapons, lethal automatic weapons, mines, RPGs, airstrikes, Apache helicopters, tanks, HMVs, navy ships firing at you from 5 miles away, SWAT teams, etc...
It is a fairytale that the 'armed militia' will be able to overthrow the current regime... snap out of it! The age of revolutions is over (oh, and you've lost)!
Now fall back in line, citizen; report tomorrow at 0800h for re-education