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Maybe not to capital-L Libertarians, card carrying members of the party who buy into an ideology, but I interpreted that statement to mean "civil libertarians."

• jacquesm 12y ago
  The price for registering data in government databases that seems innocent at first has been well known since world-war II and was the reason why we had the attack on the Amsterdam registry: http://www.jhm.nl/culture-and-history/amsterdam/plaque-commemorating-the-raid-on-the-registry-office- http://www.jhm.nl/culture-and-history/amsterdam/plaque-comme... Unfortunately by then it was too late and that little box 'religion' on the census forms had done its damage. 10's of thousands of people dead for simply being honest about something the government might have had some good reason for asking but no necessity. It's simply a well documented fact not associated with any 'isms' at this point that you should only store that which you need to store because you can't predict future use or access. That civil libertarians or capital-L libertarians agree with this is nice but it is about as relevant as the fact that they need to eat and breathe as well. It'd be nice if we could simply learn history's lessons but it appears we need to re-live the past over and over again without making much headway. I can see why law-enforcement get all gooey when they realize that they can store all movement of all vehicles pretty much indefinitely and such sentiments ought to be stamped ruthlessly into the ground whenever they pop up, the temptation is just too large to leave oversight to the services that are in a position to implement such data banks.