Skipy:

"If you have nothing to hide, then you have no problem".

I do have a problem. I have nothing to hide, but I have NO desire to surrender privacy just because I am not hiding anything. I think that logic is specious, and the sort of lamb-brained complaisance that informed the good citizens of Germany in the run-up to the second WW, and the good folks in this country during the encroachments of the Bush administration.

The issue is not whether or not you have something to hide; the issue is the sovereign right to privacy, or not; whose domain is which, and what are the rights of an individual being.

I'm all for supporting the larger cause of national well-being as well, but I am not for surrendering individual integriity or the right to mind my own business and require others to mind theirs.


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