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<blockquote data-quote="Basil Ransom" data-source="post: 338483" data-attributes="member: 49"><p><strong>RE: NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden In His Own Words</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I see all these liberal techies fuming about their right to privacy, which is all well and good, but then they turn around and want to prevent anyone but the state from taking action against villains in our midst. The more you limit the legal use of force to only police, the more you need a surveillance state to compensate for the inability of citizens to take action. The police state is the polar opposite of the vigilante state (and I don't use that word that as a pejorative, though it almost always is).</p><p></p><p>If there are bad guys, and you want order, protection has to come from somewhere - it's either going to be an armed citizenry, a specialized police force, or some balance of the two</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Basil Ransom, post: 338483, member: 49"] [b]RE: NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden In His Own Words[/b] I see all these liberal techies fuming about their right to privacy, which is all well and good, but then they turn around and want to prevent anyone but the state from taking action against villains in our midst. The more you limit the legal use of force to only police, the more you need a surveillance state to compensate for the inability of citizens to take action. The police state is the polar opposite of the vigilante state (and I don't use that word that as a pejorative, though it almost always is). If there are bad guys, and you want order, protection has to come from somewhere - it's either going to be an armed citizenry, a specialized police force, or some balance of the two [/QUOTE]
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