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Saturday, July 23, 2005
Cicero is pointing out the joys of dealing with our governments here and, from the other day, here. At issue, government data collection and the right to randomly stop and search people.
There are those who say these things are the result of excess in the War on Terror.
Hooey.
The government uses any crisis, real or manufactured, to arrogate power to itself.
The GWOT is just the current excuse.
When the terrorism issue settles down, they'll be back to designing school uniforms to prevent gang warfare, regulating cell phone usage to prevent traffic accidents and brain cancer and, if need be, determining the size of a full head of broccoli, lest our shoppers be cheated.
Things not to lose sleep over: Government bureaucrats getting laid off and winding up on the street when the mission of the expanded agency into which they were hired no longer obtains. Government powers receding in areas where former missions have lost their urgency. Our taxes going down because of actual cost reductions owing to the elimination of vestigial agencies.
posted by gbarto at 10:39 PM
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