Saturday, May 13, 2006
Nowhere to Run
People who don't give a lot of thought to illegal phone-tapping--or apparently to much of anything for that matter--used to repeat the non-sensical phrase, "if you don't have anything to hide, you don't have anything to worry about." Although, since Nixon bugged his political opponents in the 1960s and 1970s and had them harassed by the FBI and IRS, you'd think that even liberals would be able to call bogus on that mentally deficient argument.
Still, even now, after five years of threatening their opponents on TV no less, the White House still manages to bamboozle the weak-minded into Pavlovian responses of agreement.
I don't know about you, but worrying about getting fired, losing one's health care or pension, being beaten by vigilantes, or thrown into solitary confinement without access to legal representation, just might be worth worrying about. Of course, all this fretting can sometimes be avoided by relinquishing one's rights under the Constitution.
I guess that fighting to keep those rights is what the conservatives are referring to by nothing to hide.
Still, even now, after five years of threatening their opponents on TV no less, the White House still manages to bamboozle the weak-minded into Pavlovian responses of agreement.
I don't know about you, but worrying about getting fired, losing one's health care or pension, being beaten by vigilantes, or thrown into solitary confinement without access to legal representation, just might be worth worrying about. Of course, all this fretting can sometimes be avoided by relinquishing one's rights under the Constitution.
I guess that fighting to keep those rights is what the conservatives are referring to by nothing to hide.
