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Recently both Obama and McCain have made statements which can be reduced to just trust us. "Without trusting government, you can't do a lot of things" McCain said. Link Here.
Obama's words were "If you cant trust us, we're going to have problems." Link here.
I would like to point out that there is a word for those problems. It's called...democracy?
Here are some quotes from other politicians:
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with the power to endanger the public liberty" -- John Adams
"The people must remain ever vigilant against tyrants masquerading as public servants." -- George Washington
"Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one." -- Thomas Paine
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." -- Patrick Henry
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." -- Patrick Henry
"We the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts--not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." -- Abraham Lincoln
So what do you think, do those sound like people who just trusted their government? Obama's statements are flagrantly riddled with untrue assertions. The people he's asking us to trust have lied again and again on this very issue at hand. Link here.
Not to mention the congressional "oversight" in which he bestows so much confidence has been outed as a farce, as shown by a quote which I shared a couple blog posts ago: "Last year alone, in 2012, they approved 1,856 applications and they denied none. And that is typical from everything that has happened in previous years. ... I know the government has been asserting that all of this is kosher and legitimate because the FISA court signed off on it. The FISA court is a secret court — operates in secret. There is only one side and has rarely disapproved anything." Link here.
The fact the Obama continues to bludgeon us over the head with assurances they are not listening to our phonecalls and that there is oversight in place, meanwhile calling us "uninformed" for thinking otherwise and demanding our trust is, to say the least, condescending and insulting. In a recent press conference in which he denounced Snowden as not being a patriot, he called the debate "passionate" but "not fully informed." Passionate but uninformed...i.e., we're a bunch of dolts? Transcript here.
I would like to add that thanks to those such as Snowden, Clemente, Wiebe, Drake and Binney we are somewhat more informed than before; and in spite of people like Obama or McCain.
Somehow we've gotten from politicians admonishing over and over, explicitly, not trust government, to officials telling us to "just trust them" and avoid engaging in "passionate" but uninformed debate at all costs.
