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"There are actual violent-minded individuals that the state has an obligation to track and protect us from." ...And some of them are IN the government. Where d
by forgottenpaswrd 13y ago
"There are actual violent-minded individuals that the state has an obligation to track and protect us from."
...And some of them are IN the government. Where do you think Hitler came from? He won a democratic election. Also Mussolini. Where Stalin came from? From the government itself.
Government (centralized power) attracts power freaks as dung does to the flies. The mechanism democracy has for protecting itself is people's supervision.
They are destroying the feedback look of people controlling power. Out of sight, out of mind in democracy means there is no democracy at all, as people can't see what they supposedly control.
Most people don't object the government tracking individuals, what people object is the removal of the knowledge about it. If they inspect my house, I know it, why I can't with my digital info?
- pathy 13y agoHilter's rise to power was through an election but prior to that there was lots of violence etc caused by the Nazi's so it shouldn't have been any surprise that he was a violent individual. Mussolini led a coup d'etat to take a power. And Soviet hardly had a peaceful start and Stalin played a part in that. None of these exactly popped out of nowhere from within the government. Last I checked none of the current 'western' governments rose to power via fear and intimidation. That said, yes power attracts people who want power. I can't dispute that.
- walshemj 13y agoNo he got the enabling act passed by arresting and killing the opposition deputies I am sure that roberts rules of order don't suggest murder as valid form of political action :-)