A hovering warcraft that can take out hundreds, if not thousands, of American citizens, controlled by a not-too-distant terrorist organization, and ready to unleash death from above on suspecting New Yorkers.
Some have an early start, such as Chile, which threw out government-run programs in 1981 in favor of a program that gave citizens control over their own savings account.
Once only: In Estonia, every citizen has a unique online identity, meaning he or she never has to fill out the same information twice when transacting with government, and citizens control their own data.
"Society through non-governmental organizations and intermediate groups must put pressure on governments...Unless citizens control political power -- national, regional, and municipal -- it will not be possible to control damage to the environment".
Citizen control of the agenda.
Governments want to engage in mass surveillance and have total citizen control.
Tech tycoon Kim Dotcom has told the Guardian that "governments want to engage in mass surveillance and have total citizen control", before a crowd fundraising event for the Mana Internet party, the political party he founded to contest New Zealand's September 20 elections.
Mr Neumann is in good company when he declares that ordinary folk back in his Wisconsin district have sounder instincts on government than the pols in Washington.Over the years, this populism has bred constitutional devices designed to increase citizen control over elected representatives.
Last year New York Times reporter Paul Moyer also warned that government Facebook channels were being used to spread anti-Rohingya propaganda — implying the platform has also been appropriated as a citizen control tool by the state seeding its own propaganda.
She distinguished eight steps within this continuum in the authority community relation (i.e. on the participation ladder): manipulation, therapy, informing, consultation, placation, partnership, delegated power, and citizen control (Arnstein, 1969, after Cornwall, 2011).
I like the Libertarians when they don't want to go marching off to all of these wars that destroy citizen control with secrecy and foreign adventures and so forth.
