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Maybe you're right, maybe most people think that they have "nothing to hide" and want the government to "protect" them against the current boogieman (the USSR,
by fchollet 13y ago
Maybe you're right, maybe most people think that they have "nothing to hide" and want the government to "protect" them against the current boogieman (the USSR, now Islamists, tomorrow China?).
But most people do care about Freedom and civil liberties, on a less "abstract" level. They just don't quite see the connection yet.
And then it's our responsibility to inform those who don't care of the reality of what's happening and what is at stake --freedom of speech, democracy. Before it's to late to do it.
- will_brown 13y agoI think the public out cry of loss of civil liberties in this instance verse the relative lack thereof regarding the Executive creating the authority to name US citizens for extra judicial targeted drone strikes is very telling. It is not that people fear, or care more about the governmental power to intercept our electronic communications than the reality that citizenry might be killed without right to trial - they feel the loss of civil liberty in one instance is more likely to affect them personally, that is why it is important to remember "injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere." - MLK Jr.
- mpyne 13y agoI fear the next boogeyman will be MANPADs, based on a story I just read of French discoveries in Mali. I'm hoping that won't come to pass, or that we'll track down the missing MANPADs in time.