{"id":18481,"date":"2014-01-07T09:53:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T09:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-goal-of-wholesale-surveillance-as-arendt-2\/"},"modified":"2014-01-07T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T09:53:22","slug":"the-goal-of-wholesale-surveillance-as-arendt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-goal-of-wholesale-surveillance-as-arendt-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The goal of wholesale surveillance, as Arendt wrote in \u201cThe Origins of Totalitarianism,\u201d is not, in the end, to discover crimes, \u201cbut to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.\u201d And because Americans\u2019 emails, phone conversations, Web searches and geographical movements are recorded and stored in perpetuity in government databases, there will be more than enough \u201cevidence\u201d to seize us should the state deem it necessary. This information waits like a deadly virus inside government vaults to be turned against us. It does not matter how trivial or innocent that information is. In totalitarian states, justice, like truth, is irrelevant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2014\/01\/06-1\">Chris Hedges<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/azspot.net\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">azspot<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of wholesale surveillance, as Arendt wrote in \u201cThe Origins of Totalitarianism,\u201d is not, in the end, to discover crimes, \u201cbut to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.\u201d And because Americans\u2019 emails, phone conversations, Web searches and geographical movements are recorded and stored in perpetuity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4O5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}