Whenever there is a conflict between liberty and the ability of some company to make a buck, liberty will always lose. Liberty doesn't create jobs. Liberty doesn't put
So we have American companies continually coming up with innovative ways to spy on American citizens. They do so because there is money in creating new and improved CopsEyes. The moral and ethical issues are not of their concern for corporations, like money*, are completely amoral constructs. They have no morals and no souls.
If you care about individual freedom and personal privacy, some days if feels as though you're looking out over a sea of approaching zombies, you're down to your last three magazines and you do not have a River Tam to call upon.
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* Or Rmoney.
George Orwell had a great vision so to speak. He was just a little early in his timing.
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For the past few days, I've been holding Congress in even deeper contempt over their phony outrage concerning Forcing Religious People To Provide Contraceptive Care to Women OMG It's A War On Religion.
ReplyDeleteThen I remembered how well that tactic worked for the Pope.
I've been chortling ever since. I'm thinking of encouraging the conservatives to continue belaboring this point (pun intended).... because they'll lose a shitload of women's votes and guarantee Obama's re-election by an even larger percentage than he's looking at now.
Ummm... first off, what popped into my head first was "I'll be your River Tam" in the voice of Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in Tombstone.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, thanks. I sometimes forget that the real motive of all this stuff is profit, and expanded government power is often just a rationalization for writing bigger government checks.