Courtesy of Mish.
What do you think is the greatest enemy or threat to our constitutional rights?
I ask this question because a five page article in Foreign Policy Magazine says “The Greatest Enemy of Privacy Is Ambiguity”
The main thesis of the article is “If we can’t define what it means to be left alone, don’t be surprised when the government comes knocking.“
Is that all there is to it? It took me only a few minutes to decide there are numerous threats to privacy, and numerous threats to constitutional rights in general.
What about ambivalence, coercion, and ignorance?
The public is force fed lies about why we need all these security measures. Most believe the lies. As a result of believing lies, most are ambivalent about the loss in constitutional rights.
Others are simply too stupid to understand what is happening in the first place.
Still others are ignorant of what history teaches us about freedoms given up, or taken away by the state.
Beware Charismatic Politicians
Goering at the Nuremberg Trials
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