Without privacy what is the point of freedom. It’s disturbing to think that our society is moving towards the mindset that if you want your data private and your finances un-surveilled you must have something to hide. Anyone with “something to hide” must be an enemy of the state. These are twisted times... And many are beginning to ask questions like, “What advantages do common citizens have for participation within a country.” These are the sorts of totalitarian thinking that strip individual freedom, erode trust, and dissolution the vision people have for building a future that’s worthwhile.
I hope freedom loving people everywhere resist this bill and the notion of “domestic terror”. At some point will they begin to ask better questions of themselves and hold responsibility for their own actions to their constituents? We are not electing overlords here... we are electing representatives...
And if those representatives do not listen to the people who elect them... what should those people do? I fear that democracy by representation may have to evolve to democracy by itemized issue.
Human freedoms need to continue to evolve rather than contract. When they are contracting it is every citizens responsibility to ask politely (at first) and then demand an accounting of actions (or lack there of) taken.
Thanks for the write up @themarkymark. It’s good for me to catch up on general sentiment and to also get a sense of the state of society from time to time. I don’t listen or watch a lot of mainstream news as I like to be a bit removed from it. It helps me think more objectively for myself. Anyways... I’m counting this as a quick political check up around a very important issue.
I’ll be keeping an eye on this one.