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February 19, 2006

Legoland Security Administration

Via Mark Crispin Miller, a new Lego toy, a "surveillance truck," which allows police to use satellite dishes to intercept signals "from all over the world." At the risk of driving traffic that way, here's one website that is selling the truck.

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I'll admit that I'm fascinated and troubled by these children's toys that condition them to police state tactics, or in the case of this George Bush action figure, promote Bush's triumphalist militarism.

Posted by chuck at February 19, 2006 5:03 PM

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