fkusumot on 20 May 2008
| twesterm said: Like I've said, you can either be stubborn and stick to your guns for absolutely no good reason or you can actually realize that something like that would go a *veyr* long way in stopping crimes like terrorist attacks or people epxloiting children on the internet. |
You forgot about Nixon and Watergate. The information can be used in other ways, and if gathered, it most likely will. You could also look at what J. Edgar Hoover did with his cabinet of files. I'm amazed that you're defending the rise of the police state. I served in the military for twenty years to defend liberty in the hopes that the US (and the rest of the world) would be free from Big Brother.
Your argument that there is no inconvenience involved is short sighted. Your argument that "people that have nothing to hide have nothing to fear" is also short sighted. In the end when you cede the right to privacy the government will decide what is convenient or not. They will also decide whether you have anything to fear or not, after you've already given up your right to privacy.
