Bob La Quey wrote:
>
> So I aks you, John. Are you suggesting I _should_ care? I assume
> you have read my other responses in this thread.
>
> If so why?
I can only really insert two arguments.
1) Do you send your postal mail in an envelope, or on a postcard?
This argument is that postal mail, in an envelops is protected from
occasional scrying. Certainly an interested party can intercept, open,
and resend the leter probably without the sender nor recipient from
noticing the tampering. A postcard lets anyone read it.
If you use an envelope, then you are showing some interest in privacy.
I have to except the letters with enclosures. This is a crappy
argument these days as no one writes personal letters anymore.
2) The camel's nose. Eroding freedoms is not done overnight. It is done
piece by piece until the Powers That Be have amassed enough power to
erode the rest in one fell swoop without fear of retaliation.
It comes down to this: Do you value your freedom? Do you value your
privacy? If you do, that is why you should care, and why you should
insist. If you don't value, then don't care. It will be of no loss to
you.
No one is going to care about you more than you. Bottom line.
They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
-Martin Niemoeller
As written inscribed on the New England Holocaust Memorial
-john
By you, I mean anyone.
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