When the government wages war, against poverty, drugs, terror, germs, or just garden variety old-fashioned wars, it’s guaranteed that people’s freedom will shrink. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
After Nahhnnnnlevven, it became fashionable – almost compulsory – to worship anything wearing a government-issued uniform (and carrying a government-issued gun). We were told – lectured – that these armed government workers were saving us all from evildoing terrrssts.
We couldn’t be too safe.
The “enemies of freedom,”as they were styled, never actually took away any of our freedoms. Nor could they – since they lacked the ability to impose laws rescinding them.
Bu their shadowy presence – everywhere, anywhere – became the universal justification for the actual taking away of our freedoms, by law.
No more just getting on an airplane without getting felt up or body-scanned. No more need for the government to get a warrant based on probable cause before it could listen in on your phone calls – and record everyone’s phone calls, web searches, text, etc. No more not having your financial transactions automatically “reported” to the government. Open season Hut! Hut! Hutting! by armed government workers . . . for taking photos and videos of armed government workers.
Reblogged this on uwerolandgross.