Thursday, January 19, 2012

How Much Is Your Freedom Worth?

SEE HERE George Will isn't my favorite columnist but he hits often enough that he's a must read.  The usual liberal gnats I've written off long ago.  They can usually be told by the vapidity of their headlines which usually trigger an advance shudder since you know it's just more liberal spin.  Here though Will focuses in on a real threat to freedom, the criminalization of ordinary activity.  Taking pictures could indeed be terrorist “pre-operational surveillance”.  But it is actually more likely that it is just a citizen taking pictures.  The increase in numbers of relatively inexpensive cameras that take high quality pictures it causing an explosion of picture taking activity.  Just check out the Facebook pictures statistics if you doubt me.  The road to serfdom is paved with good intentions.  Actually my mom said "hell" but serfdom is probably on the same road.

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