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And punished for even mentioning it, as the votes on your comment demonstrate.

These days everyone smart and educated wants to be a 'no-BS' skeptic type person. That means categorically rejecting anything that smells like certain kinds of "low-brow" thought. What I wrote trips the "conspiracy theory" heuristic, so it gets tossed.

It's a lazy cheap heuristic. If you took what's happening today and went back in time 20 years and posted about it on the 1990s Internet, even the wacko conspiracy nuts would call you crazy.

We knew about the NSA over 30 years ago. We knew about Echelon over 20 years ago. Nothing in the Snowden dump was a surprise. Only confirmation.

You don't even need a time machine to see the truth in what you've said. Remember the seemingly absurd "silent black helicopters" of conspiracy lore? Then look what was revealed during the bin Laden raid. Of course plenty of people were calling 1984 conspiratorial drivel as well. The world of today puts that to shame.

Will the punishment never cease??

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