They know everything. Not just the shirt, but how you paid, the brand, how much it was, its size and all the alternatives that were available at the time in the store.

I worked in a project with them for years and I can tell you they have every last scintilla of every purchase you have EVER made with an EFTPOS or credit card.

They, like Kang, Know All.

This why we need drones. Take these people out first, foremost and quickly.

Islam, if this is the adherents perspective, is the absolute enemy of everyone.

They clearly forgot to add the "malevolent disembodied life form" detection dooverlacky on this probe.

NASA cant get *anything* right!

Ah, but the government can destroy its own citizens and it is not.

An interesting thing, no?

We think we have progressed so far, only to find we are rally 2 steps behind.

Indeed your argument is true.

I don't agree with countries that torture, hold extraordinary renditions, run black concentration camps, indiscriminate murder other countries citizens, incarcerate its innocent citizens or bankrupt them to protect corporate larceny, but I do host my sites there.

in a household, this is exactly what the MPAA does. Everyone is guilty.

probably not as bad as every single war you have lost since.

".....complete disclosure to the general public of any information regarded as essential to national security"

Extending the idea. Not a big reach.

Overnight everything becomes in the interest of Essential National Security.

Even what you had for breakfast - Food Security.

Can't let the terrorists know in case they try to poison the worlds supply of sugar.

the USA is utterly doomed.

It is in its death spiral.

ARGH! Edit... bloody ipad missed my typing...

"American companies are deliberately having Chinese companies manufacturing high tech devices"

Imagine the scenario, if you will, 30 years ago I go to the President and say that American companies are deliberately manufacturing high tech devices used for phones, computing, communications, military and satellites.

I would be thrown straight into the looney bin and charged with treason. Commies making our most valuable, necessary and trusted equipment? Never!

Fast forward 30 years. What could possibly go wrong?

They most certainly do have laws.

They protect the parties members, the corrupt elite and those Chinese who want to confiscate a foreigners businesses.

But, you will find them and the process opaque, haphazard, arbitrary and shockingly harsh... unless of course you are a senior party member, in which case none of this applies to you.

Yoda, that would make him.

Its an efficient way of removing a political enemy.

Been used for persecution of legitimate comment and criticism for millennia. If they don't like you, off to prison. Trump up a charge or 9. Silence dissent by throwing a few "insult" slanders at them, fit them up for thought crimes and events that don't happen.

Its the evils of an evil government, not the king.