tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post8542800093587333953..comments2024-03-04T16:39:30.609+13:00Comments on Lindsay Mitchell: Salesman for the stateLindsay Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-4478253636069022702012-03-21T12:31:50.665+13:002012-03-21T12:31:50.665+13:00Well said Lindsay, and Mark you're dead right....Well said Lindsay, and Mark you're dead right. Enjoyment of privacy is indeed a hallmark of individual freedom. One just needs to think of the telescreens in Orwell's novel...Richard McGrathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16897506962769133615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-81148653614421539942012-03-20T08:30:28.638+13:002012-03-20T08:30:28.638+13:00You've cottoned onto the fact, Lindsay, in at ...You've cottoned onto the fact, Lindsay, in at least two posts now, that privacy (from the State) is a litmus test of freedom. No privacy, no freedom. It's one of the main topics I write about now on SOLO.<br /><br />I would define the police state as simply one in which the individual has no privacy from the State, and even when you know the powers the IRD have, you realise we are the police state already. And it happened because the tyranny of the majority said, 'but if you have done nothing wrong, what's the problem ...' <br /><br />In that sentence, borne by lack of philosophical thinking about the nature of freedom, and how the State is the biggest threat to that, was our downfall. It is completely beyond the minds of our politicians, to understand any of these concepts either.<br /><br />The West is moving inexorably from the optimism and the 'freedom' of 1776 back in time to 1984.<br /><br />Freedom lost ...Mark Hubbardhttp://www.solopassion.com/blog/966noreply@blogger.com