"What is the big fuss? Let the gov't track me. I don't care. I am not doing anything illegal."

This isn't a question of wether you ARE or AREN'T guilty of something. It's a matter of ethics and unalienable rights to live without having to constantally wonder wether you made a mistake Big Brother might not like, irrespective of wether they actually did anything wrong in the first place.

Like the old addage says: "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Lord Acton

Acton was a British historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Being that Lord Acton was a historian, there's little doubt he had a particularly good vantage point to make that statement and what he meant by it is just as it sounds.

Regardless of wether there are bad people in this world the vast majority of people are law abiding and good natured. There is no justification for putting an innoncent majority under a goverments persecutory umbrella of a minority. Don't they teach you this stuff in High School history class?

As for your statement "Doesn't anyone believe in Democracy? What a shame."

Yes, I strongly believe in the democratic process, and that is precisely why I insist in check and balances. An unchecked democracy is no democracy at all!







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