You have heard of the governemnts in theMiddle East cutting off cell phonesa and social media to prevent protestors. Well now it is happening in the USA too. More on this and other increasing in the police state here. Might be a good time to watch the movie V for Vendetta again to get an idea of what is slowly going on.

With British politicians demanding a clampdown on social media in the wake of London riots, and with the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) agency having done so last week in San Francisco, switching off underground cell phone service to help squelch a protest against police violence, authoritarian control tactics, aping those deployed in Egypt and Tunisia (that worked out well!) are becoming the norm in so-called "Western democracies."

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