A police state is merely a highly organised centrally controlled system by its very nature. Like any organised system, it must have lots of sensor information that flows to a central system. Any animal such as a frog, cat, bird or human is a centrally organised system in terms of control. This would not be true though for it's biochemistry. It follows therefore that to have a global police state requires many inputs from all levels of society to the greatest detail possible or to whatever level is required by the system to operate. All this information would flow to a few high level data processing centres, from where control can be implemented based on the inputs it is receiving from the system, or society in this case.

Thus the question is asked ! Since all these technical pieces of the jigsaw are more or less available, is a global police state inevitable and or possible ? One only has to look back in the last few years at the massive increase in survelliance cameras, data storage capacities, netw

rea, where in Great Britain, all overhead motorway cameras are currently being linked together along with those already in existence in London. There are already systems in place for reading car registrations automatically, which using roadside markers are able to tell if you break the speed limit also, and then mail you the relevant fine. That's all harmless stuff for the average good citizen, but when every major road is covered, the country can be quickly divided up into manageable regions and when the 'system' is looking for someone, either through the tracking of cameras, car registration cameras, credit card transactions, bank ATM transactions and or the cellular phone(s), then such a system is very feasible. Most of the components are all being put in place for the best of intentions, but the power of them combined together is far greater than the narrow areas that they were designed for. The temptation for the state to use it is about the same as for an alcoholic at a !

Enough of this technical stuff, the real issue is then should society be allowed to slip into a global police state or indeed are humans an inherently uncontrollable lot ? It would certainly appear that it could be done from a technical point of view. History shows that even in the most diabolical situations, humans generally have a great capacity to wreck the best of systems to control them. But should we be lured in a false sense of security in our own capabilities, just because a few people managed to escape death camps, where in fact most died, or in cases where people managed to speak out in places like Tibet or East Timor, which now as we speak most of the native population ar

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