The bottom-line in today’s society is that security and safety are important, while liberty can be limited in order to make crime-fighting more effective.

The problem with this is that the arguments for it are rather rational – Yes, since all citizen have the right to privacy, criminals can hind behind these rights as well. Here is usually where the “if you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear”-argument comes in. Which is completely the opposite to reality. For if a society is turned into such a society where the state knows even the smallest of your mistakes and will punish you for it (since you have done “something” wrong, you will logically have to fear as well), that my friends, is a police state.

Ergo a society where the state wants to be able to see behind your wall of integrity, is a police state. If, however, they would not punish for smaller crimes, consciously, a fault in the system would appear, and I can assure you they would not hesitate to fix it.

The very idea of fighting crime is, in itself, dangerous. If everybody has to be checked, everybody is a potential thief, murderer or terrorist. Of course, it More >