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[KMag]

Right. The anti-privacy lobby has their big 3 boogey men: "terrorists", "drug dealers", and "child molesters".

The pro-privacy lobby has 2 big boogey men: "criminals" and "the Chinese". What's our third boogeyman? We must close the boogeyman gap!

I suppose "crooked LEOs" doesn't have enough of a ring to it.

[mangeletti → KMag]

> third boogeyman?

Um... how about Government.

I'm not suggesting that Government is intrinsically a boogeyman (and I'm not an anarchist), but first and foremost on the list of entities that privacy and weapons protect citizens from is Government.

[Floegipoky → mangeletti]

I'd argue that the US Constitution was written with the implicit assertion that government is a boogeyman. Why else would we need the bill of rights?