Privacy Rights
It seems that as every day passes, our rights are infringed upon more and more by the government. It also occurred to me that without freedom of the press, we would be living in a country ripe with corruption, with the government operating more freely without regard for our civil rights, not that it already doesn’t. I’m actually surprised that our mail isn’t opened and read, then sealed back up and sent to its intended location, all in the name of safety or some other bullshit reason that the government uses to infringe on our rights.
It turns out that Google has started a new intiative to help prevent the outbreak of the Flu. How would a company accomplish such a feat? Easily, by simply providing each user’s search information to the government so that Flu outbreaks can be pinpointed and contained. Thats a great idea isn’t it? All of our private information is sent to the government in return for our protection. Maybe I’m blowing this out of proportion though, I mean I should be willing to give up my freedoms in return for protection by the government. Though I can’t help but wonder, exactly who is going to protect me from the government? With the stroke of a pen, law enforcement officials can obtain any information from any company about any person for just about any reason. Last I checked, that amounted to illegal search and seizure.
Perhaps we should start requiring everyone with the HIV virus to register with the government so that the health of the public can be protected by making the information public and requiring these people to carry some form of identification with them showing that they are HIV positive. Come to think of it, that sort of system worked well for certain countries during World War 2, so we know how well such a program would work. Maybe we should start having every transaction that we make each day recorded and sent to a government database in order to ensure that people aren’t doing anything that we wouldn’t want them to do, that we could possibly deem hazardous to everyone else. That would really help to protect us all.
Just out of curiosity though, have you seen V for Vendetta? If not, I’d recommend watching it, as it is a great eye opener.