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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: tejek who wrote (719924)12/28/2005 4:45:51 PM
From: pompsander  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
People that have done nothing that would be considered to be against the law, security of the nation, or moral fiber, have nothing to fear from the government. Either you are paranoid, or have something to hide.

Boy, how things change. It wasn't more than a few years ago that it was the Conservatives who were fearful of big government, Big Brother, intruding into private lives, into bedrooms, into personal conversations and decisions. They roundly repudiated the argument that if you had done nothing wrong you had nothing to fear when it applied to proposed gun control laws. Groups like the Freemen in Montana pointed out that an ever vigilent population protecting the privacy of citizens must be protected at all costs. Nothing overruled the individual rights of the citizen, certainly not big government's intrusion. The conservatives repudiated the rationales argued by the lefties for more government oversight and echoed that the rights of the individual are paramount.

Perhaps the issues involving scrutiny of citizen's activities are justified by current threats, but I sometimes find it remarkable that some citizens most fearful of "big government" seem now most willing to buy into the arguments they loathed before.
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