…by an old collectivist trick which goes like this: there is no absolute freedom anyway, since you are not free to murder; society limits your freedom when it does not permit you to kill; therefore, society holds the right to limit your freedom in any manner it sees fit; therefore, drop the illusion of freedom–freedom is whatever society decides it is.
It is not society, nor any social right, that forbids you to kill–but the inalienable individual right of another man to live. This is not a ‘compromise’ between two rights–but a line of division that preserves both rights untouched. The division is not derived from an edict of society–but from your own inalienable right. The definition of this limit is not set arbitrarily by society–but is implicit in the definition of your own right.
Within the sphere of your own rights, your freedom is absolute.”
-Ayn Rand
Are you afraid?
Do you ever hear that odd clicking sound on your phone?
Is a non-descript car following you sometimes?
Do you sometimes receive packages you did not expect or aren’t yours?
. . .
Is this any reason to be paranoid?!
It is very, very important to be careful. It is very important you protect your information and yourself. 75,000 people, reportedly, have their identity “stolen” each year, used for fraud and money scams. Don’t let that be you.
But, sorry to say, the government is NOT out to get you. And, if I am wrong, and they are, I doubt there is much you can do about it. Where the real problem and worry should lay is where ii it going? Today’s Weekly Picks are some Government Paranoia/Government Total Control material. I HIGHLY suggest you read them. Not only are they entertaining, but they are, sadly, possible. And we may be going there. We take our freedom and rights for granted so much, or the verse, we seek to so adamantly defend them that we in turn lose them.
Government regulation has become a joke. The government is, as I said in another rant, a government’s sole duty is to protect each individual citizen’s rights. Nothing more. A government should not be telling people what they can do (minus those actions that would harm another’s right to pursue happiness), or what scientist is right, or what drugs you can or cannot use. (In fact, they should be more worried about the damn roads than what drugs someone is doing … and those who know me, know I am not a drug user, so this is not a pro-drug argument… merely the truth.)
People who are paranoid about government invasion have a good point, but in the respect that things can get very bad if we let them. Instead of solving our own problems and treating people on equal grounds, we cry to mommy government or sue through daddy court. Please.
Grow up and try to take some personal accountability. Judge by merit and be judged by merit. Alone.