Christian Parenti > 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

“In a world that sees two meter sea level rise, with continued flooding ahead, it will take extraordinary effort for the United States, or indeed any country, to look beyond its own salvation. All of the ways in which human beings have dealt with natural disasters in the past . . . could come together in one conflagration: rage at government’s inability to deal with the abrupt and unpredictable crises; religious fervor, perhaps even a dramatic rise in millennial end-of-days cults; hostility and violence toward migrants and minority groups, at a time of demographic change and increased global migration; and intra- and interstate conflict over resources, particularly food and fresh water.”
― Christian Parenti, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence

“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