Whats wrong with having a big brother government?

Question

I don't understand why the idea bothers people.
So what if the gov knows everything.
Why does the idea bother people?

Answer 1

The Government must always be answerable to the people, If it isn't think USSR, North Korea, Nazi Germany, Suharto's Indonesia- get the point.

Answer 2

The vision of our Masonic founders was a non-intrusive libertarian existence for male landowners.
The idea that you could do as you chose on your land was revolutionary because prior to this land had been owned by royalty for a long time. Serfs, peasants,what have you, were indentured servants by virtue that their employers, for the most part, were also their landlords.

Since it's conception, compromise and reinterpretation have altered the original, but most of the principals survive. They knee jerk reaction of conservative reactionaries to the current mid east situation has been experienced before and will be again. The ideology can only survive if the people hold to these principals:
Liberty - no big brother gov
Justice - no get out of jail free cards
Pursuit of Happiness - Have a nice life

Millions have served and died in defense of these principals, to insure their linage the same freedom they have enjoyed.

These liberties we have been given have to be used and protected, as power corrupts, and our forefathers designed the system to be self balancing, with the pres being the leader of armed forces only. The congress did all the governing and the court made sure the law was not in violation of these liberties.

We need reinstatement of freedom, not restriction. When a government becomes afraid of it's people, it is time for a new government.

Answer 3

Well, for one thing it violates our constitution -- which explicity (and implicitly through case law over the years) protects the rights of privacy of US citizens. The consitution only gives the government a right to know what it has a justifiable reason to know, not to know everything about its citizens.

It also greatly expands the possibilities for the government to use information about its citizens in an abusive way. Our government was designed the way it was, with checks and balances and explicit rights of citizens, because the framers knew first hand that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The US government exists by the consent of the people, not as an entity that controls us. We control it...or at least we're supposed to. True freedom depends on limiting government from becoming too powerful (or too knowledgeable), it's a concept millions of Americans have fought and died for, to give in to a "big brother" government now would make their sacrifices in vain.

Answer 4

But why would the Government want to know everything? It's a matter of control. To know all is to have an advantage in the ability to control the populace, either through direct force or more subtle methods (media, etc.). Since people have different ways of enjoying life and exercising their freedom in pursuance of happiness, the Government controlling you for their own ends only reduces your freedom unless you WANT to do what they tell you, without question.

For example, if I knew everything about you, I would know the most effective means of controlling you and getting you to do what I want. You would lose freedom by being forced to live your life fulfilling my enjoyments at the expense of your own.

Since I feel the meaning of life is to simply enjoy life, total Government control would contradict this.

Answer 5

For your information, the government has contracted with the KBR corp. to build as many as 800 internment camps in the U.S. Many of these are on abandoned military bases, and in secluded areas. The Patriot Act gives the government nearly complete authority to declare virtually anybody a terrorist. They can detain them without trial, anywhere, for any length of time. I don't know about you, but this New World Order police state conspiracy stuff is beginning to look more and more real all the time to me.

Answer 6

You'll have to ask the Forefathers, they were the ones that came with the idea of a Constitution and the limited role of the government in the private lives of the citizens

Answer 7

Do you like Mommy telling you how much paper to use when you wipe? And being punished if you use more?(analogy)
Do you want government police breaking down your door because your neighbor SAID you smoked a joint?

Do you like being able to speak your mind without fear of reprisal?
I do.

Information is knowledge.
Knowledge is power.
I do not willingly give power over me to ones I do not trust.

Do you trust the person you voted AGAINST in the last election?

Answer 8

Most people believe in a right to privacy. Thus, they dislike a government that spies on them.

Answer 9

1984,the book

Answer 10

they don't need to be inside my home smelling the crack of my @ss. but yes we have to give up some liberties for safety