{"id":2020,"date":"2010-09-02T10:07:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T15:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2010-09-02T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T15:11:02","slug":"government-online-surveillance-and-your-bad-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/02\/government-online-surveillance-and-your-bad-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Online Surveillance and Your Bad Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2010-09-01\/\" title=\"Dilbert.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/000000000\/00000000\/0000000\/000000\/90000\/8000\/900\/98950\/98950.strip.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dilbert.com\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This great Dilbert cartoon perfectly captures how surveillance breeds distrust.  <\/p>\n<p>The feds are spying on us left and right, and yet politicians whine that we don&#8217;t trust the government.<\/p>\n<p>At least not everyone&#8217;s a damn fool on that regard.  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