The Soft Cage Quotes

“You already have zero privacy. Get over it! --Scott McNealy CEO Sun Microsystems 1999”
― Christian Parenti, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror

“If J. Edgar Hoover had something like Total Information Awareness, would his agents have used it, as they did all the other means available to them, to harass civil rights activists, reds, poor people's organizations, unionists, & peaceniks? Most certainly!”
― Christian Parenti, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror

“Let's face it: America is full of borderline, petty despots. They gravitate toward work as police officers, security gaurds, & supervisory bureaucrats like firemen, welfare case workers, and school principles. ”
― Christian Parenti, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror