Yeah, um, you know how people say communism is a fine system, is just that people let it down, and there for it is thoroughly discredited? National security and official secrets are kinda like that.
Sure, in an ideal world, where we trust government and its institutions, I couldn't agree more. Problem is that, for many, its no longer the case. We have seen it abused to protect mere individuals or money, when it is supposed to protect the state from attack.
The other problem is that most states now equate business and commerce to state and security. What they certainly don't do any more, if they ever did, is equate the citizens to state.... until you vote. The scope is out of hand.
Imagine if the state valued our individual rights and privacy as much as it values the rights and privacy of the itself?
Sure, in an ideal world, where we trust government and its institutions, I couldn't agree more. Problem is that, for many, its no longer the case. We have seen it abused to protect mere individuals or money, when it is supposed to protect the state from attack.
The other problem is that most states now equate business and commerce to state and security. What they certainly don't do any more, if they ever did, is equate the citizens to state.... until you vote. The scope is out of hand.
Imagine if the state valued our individual rights and privacy as much as it values the rights and privacy of the itself?