On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:12:25PM -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: > > "Open Strong and Free" is not going to cut it against right wing > rhetoric. Nor is the truth, which is that we want the freedom > preserved so we do not face the nightmare deployed in Communist China > against their dissidents: A Right Wing 'security' agenda plays the > card "you will only oppose us if you have nothing to hide" and while > it may be true that we have nothing to hide _today_, that does not > mean our governments of the future will be so delightfully ethical > that we will have no concerns tomorrow.
i think one of the points that needs to be played up more is the distinction between having nothing to hide from the state, and nothing to hide from the friends or family of people who just happen to work for the state. i don't think there are very many people at all who aren't hiding something from someone. -- Kristofer Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3
