Ever since I was a kid, I have heard Americans ask, “How could the German people have allowed the Nazi regime to commit its evil acts?” Well, here’s the answer to that question: The German people had the same warped and distorted concept of patriotism that American statists have today. For the statist, the national-security state is everything. It is god. It is daddy. It is big brother. Everything else, including conscience, must be subordinated to “national security” and to the national-security state’s oaths, laws, rules, and regulations. The battle lines are forming in the case of Edward Snowden. On the one side are the statists, for whom patriotism means an unconditional pledge of allegiance to the national-security state and its deep and dark nefarious secrets involving grave infringements on liberty and privacy. On the other side are the libertarians and a few liberals and conservatives, for whom conscience and freedom reign supreme. Time will tell which side wins out. Time will tell which direction America heads in.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:45:35 +0000
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