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Originally posted by KRL
It has nothing to do with hiding. Its invasion of your privacy. Who wants the Federal Govertment to know your every move. That's the direction we are heading and that my friend takes us closer towards a police state and further from a democracy.
People don't get it at all. Its amazing. Don't you see inch by inch they keep taking more and more control over every aspect of our lives. Where does it end? It doesn't.
Idiots.
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A DAMN good read!
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1619
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Submission and compliance: that is what is meant by the term security in the state's lexicon. It is an interesting choice of words. Its use in public life dates at least to the advent of Social Security, a tax scheme that promises to put you on welfare in your old age in exchange for paying 14 percent of your income to support current retirees who constitute the wealthiest demographic slice of the American population. Even in this case, the term security meant compliance, as shown by the tendency of recipients to back ever more redistribution.
Now we have the Department of Homeland Security, a gargantuan agency that administers foreign and domestic spying, sends hither swarms of agents to harass us at airports, conduct drills in the event that the government decides that martial law is the only option, and generally suppress any and all signs of insurrection wherever they might appear. Here too the term security means submission, control, compliance, obedience, and stability for the state.
Who is this security trying to secure? We are told it is for our own benefit. It is government that makes us secure from terrible threats. And yet, if we look closely, we can see that the main beneficiary of security is the state itself.
We all understand this intuitively. Let's say you know that someone is after you?an ex-spouse, for example?and threatens your very life. Would you call the Department of Homeland Security and expect a response? No, the DHS is there to protect the state, as evidenced by the comparatively energetic response that a threat to the president's life would elicit.
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