"Have you noticed what we are not
hearing from the authoritarians? None of them are saying, if the
government has nothing to hide it has nothing to fear. None of them are
saying that only the guilty need secrecy and darkness. I wonder why that
is."
Inconvenient Logic: What Have You Got to
Hide?
by CLS
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
When it was discovered that the Bush administration was using warrantless
searches against Americans civil libertarians complained. Those who
excuse every increase in State power screamed at us: "What have you
got to hide? If you are innocent you have nothing to fear."
When we learned that Homeland Security agents were going into public
libraries to check up on what people were reading the civil libertarians
again complained. And once again we were told that if we had done nothing
wrong we would have nothing to fear.
The Homeland Gestapo now has scanners which basically take nude photos of
every passenger. Civil libertarians shrieked but the authoritarians among
us were adamant that this too was necessary. And, of course, if you have
nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear.
For those unwilling to be scanned in such a revealing manner the
government makes sure it punishes those who resist by a new
"enhanced" pat-down which includes government agents touching
the genitals of resisters. Sure those crazy libertarian-inclined types
were horrified. But yet again, it was made clear that if we have nothing
to hide, we have nothing to fear. Only the guilty fear revelations, the
innocent can have their entire life, or their genitals, open for
inspection.
Now the people at Wikileaks has open for public scrutiny a slew of
diplomatic reports and correspondence.
Have you noticed what we are not hearing from the authoritarians? None of
them are saying, if the government has nothing to hide it has nothing to
fear. None of them are saying that only the guilty need secrecy and
darkness. I wonder why that is.
http://bit.ly/gJrQev
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