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"It’s all an invasion of privacy until you’re sitting on the other side of the table"

This is very insightful. It's also depressing, because it's a great point for those who oppose privacy. I even find myself swayed by this reasoning.



The government believes you might have information about a missing child and are withholding it. They are about to restrain you against your will and search your rectum without your consent.

The reason this violation was able to take place is because…

> It’s all an invasion of privacy until you’re sitting on the other side of the table

The thing about privacy and the government is you must always envision yourself on the wrong side of the table, because you are. Right up to the point they are inside you. [1] Your right to privacy is your strength and without it you are a slave to forces you don’t understand, can’t see, hear, taste, or smell.

Privacy or lack there of changes who you are and how you act. It changes what you say and why.

Be very careful how you submit to surveillance. The privacy you forfeit can never be recaptured.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-man-sues-over-repeated-anal-pr...




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