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Originally posted by Rodeo
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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Are you a lawyer? My sister is a prosecutor and would LOVE to have you in court.
You enjoy freedoms you do not even recognize. In a totalitarian regime, your post count would be 11, maybe 12.
Words have meaning...name one intrusion by government in your life that is not lawful.