Even if you have nothing to
hide you have something to Fear
Townhall.com – Bob Barr – 6/12/2013
Our nation was built on the
principle of the rule of law; the notion that people are most free if they cede
only a minimum of their natural rights to government, limited by a written
Constitution, in order to secure liberty.
Yet now we are witnessing a
government unbridled by the rule of law, which has become subservient to the
whims of its leaders; and based not on the goal of ensuring liberty and
justice, but on constructing arbitrary conditions of "security."
In this paradigm, the Fourth
Amendment no longer carries any real significance for we are asked to accede to
the principle that a president and his administration posses “inherent power”
-- superseding any other authority or limitation -- to secretly gather, store,
and analyze an infinite amount of information gathered from the private
communications of millions of law-abiding citizens.
Distressingly, the failsafe
on such unbridled power, supposed to be exercised by the Congress through its
oversight responsibilities, has been sorely lacking.
The Obama Administration
turned the liberal vision of Big Government into an omnipotent police state in
which citizens' rights are pre-empted by the collective and over-arching need
for “security.” However, Republicans, too, face this identity crisis. The
people of the United States
Our country truly is at a
crossroad; one defined by philosopher Ayn
Rand some seven decades ago, when she correctly observed: “When you take away a man’s privacy, you
gain the power to control him absolutely.” "Control" -- that is
what this is really all about.
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