Why is this the Endlessly used excuse validating the allowance of policies that are eroding our freedoms and giving our governments more control and responsibility over our lives? In a dictatorship this is progressive thinking, in a free society it is regressive thinking.
The problem lies with what is considered to be "something to hide". I don't want to be filmed 24 hours a day, everywhere I go, does that mean I've got something to hide? I don't much like the idea of being fingerprinted if i want to go into a bar, does that mean I have got something to hide? Yes, if I am an enemy of the gestapo in the 1930s, but no if I am a free citizen in 21st century Britain or America.
Since when were long established civil liberties and the citizen's right to privacy replaced with this "new freedom", this "freedom lite" shall we call it, this guilty until proven innocent mantra?
NBC spcial on "surveilence society"
http://www.infowars.net/articles/november2006/211106_b_BB.htm
2006-11-24
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