Trusting The Government?
By Ian Scott
I’ve had some very interesting and forthright email with someone whose political viewpoints are most certainly different from mine. However, the correspondence back and forth has been refreshingly respectful and courteous. We haven’t bashed each other, and have even managed to acknowledge each other’s positions. One of his comments about me as being a libertarian was that I couldn’t “trust bureaucracy about as far as you could throw it,” on the other hand, he had his own “distrust of the free market.”
Fair enough. At least we’ve got some workable premises to continue discussing our various thoughts and positions. More on that later, perhaps.
My friend is right. I don’t trust bureaucracy. I don’t trust any level of government. I especially do not trust the government of the United States of America or the government of Canada.
When a country enacts secret laws, so secret that even the citizens of the country are not allowed to view them, there is something insanely wrong. When a man takes his government to court, yet is not allowed to see the law that he claims is infringing upon his rights, rights no longer really exist.
Whatever you think of John Gilmore and his battle to travel using aircraft anywhere within the United States without having to provide Identification, you must at least give him credit for helping us discover the existence of “secret laws.” The government thinks these laws should be so secret, that they should be delivered to the court under seal, for the eyes of the judge only.
Imagine, laws that are not available for public inspection. But of course, ignorance of the law is still not a valid defence.
And this is what folks decide to put their trust in? In America, they should take a close look at their one cent coins, that all say, “In God We Trust.” If you don’t believe in a Supreme Being, that means you are your own God. And that is what you should trust. Not some government that forces you to abide by a law that you are not even able to inspect.
Happy Personal Privacy to you.
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