Comments on: As Soon As they Tell You You’ve Nothing To Fear – http://www.stageleft.info/2009/06/18/as-soon-as-they-tell-you-youve-nothing-to-fear/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:56:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: tdwebste http://www.stageleft.info/2009/06/18/as-soon-as-they-tell-you-youve-nothing-to-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-150027 tdwebste Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:19:30 +0000 http://www.stageleft.info/?p=5822#comment-150027 Even though most politicians and police are honest and don't cheat, given the opportunity a few will. If the corrupt cheaters have advantage over the upright and honest, soon everyone will feel lot of pressure to play the game to win, even if that means letting their integrity slip. We simply cannot give politicians and police this kind of unrestrained power. There also needs to be an independent anti corrupt investigation council that reports to an independently selected supreme court. The independence of the judicially selection is another thing removed by the Conservatives. Just as the police say the honest have nothing to hide. Honest politicians and police don't remove tools which can prevent political and judicial corruption.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('150027','tdwebste'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('150027','tdwebste','Even though most politicians and police are honest and don\'t cheat, given the opportunity a few will. If the corrupt cheaters have advantage over the upright and honest, soon everyone will feel lot of pressure to play the game to win, even if that means letting their integrity slip.\r\n\r\nWe simply cannot give politicians and police this kind of unrestrained power. There also needs to be an independent anti corrupt investigation council that reports to an independently selected supreme court. The independence of the judicially selection is another thing removed by the Conservatives. \r\n\r\nJust as the police say the honest have nothing to hide. Honest politicians and police don\'t remove tools which can prevent political and judicial corruption.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Even though most politicians and police are honest and don’t cheat, given the opportunity a few will. If the corrupt cheaters have advantage over the upright and honest, soon everyone will feel lot of pressure to play the game to win, even if that means letting their integrity slip.

We simply cannot give politicians and police this kind of unrestrained power. There also needs to be an independent anti corrupt investigation council that reports to an independently selected supreme court. The independence of the judicially selection is another thing removed by the Conservatives.

Just as the police say the honest have nothing to hide. Honest politicians and police don’t remove tools which can prevent political and judicial corruption.

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]]> By: Treehugger http://www.stageleft.info/2009/06/18/as-soon-as-they-tell-you-youve-nothing-to-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-150010 Treehugger Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:32:47 +0000 http://www.stageleft.info/?p=5822#comment-150010 “– do you remember when Conservatism used to include valuing individual privacy?”

Actually, no, I don’t. It must have been a very long time ago. The “nothing to fear if you’ve nothing to hide” mantra is much more familiar. I am reminded of it about 3 times a month at airport security.

I really don’t think individual privacy has been a big slogan for conservatives in general. It certainly hasn’t been for social conservatives. It would apply to libertarians I suppose, but they are not necessarily of the conservative mind set.

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