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This started with sammy's (oft repeated) rant to the effect of "if you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about" when the government peeks into some aspect of your life.
That is the precise opposite of freedom. In free countries, the government needs cause to invade an individual's privacy. The laws not only restrain the individual actions of citizens, they restrain the government from intruding on our lives, or homes, our cars, our telephones, our emails, our bank accounts.
There is no government action against an individual that can't be explained away with "if you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about."
But that's not freedom, that's the opposite of freedom.
Today's supposed conservatives seem to never find a government power to regulate people that they don't like (except for gun control).
I don't find anything "conservative" about the continued intrusion of government into our lives.
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We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
We will stay the course *** We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]
And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]
And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. [4/16/04]
And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]
Well, hey, listen, we’ve never been “stay the course” [10/21/06]
--- George W. Bush, President of the United States of America
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