{"id":52245,"date":"2024-03-15T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52245"},"modified":"2024-03-14T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T13:46:48","slug":"qotd-the-ever-growing-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/03\/15\/qotd-the-ever-growing-state\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The ever-growing state"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Inconvenience would seem to be a small price to pay for peace of mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That one phrase sums up all the problems we are having with government in this country. It justifies the humiliating personal searches at airports. It justifies the police state tactics of &#8220;sobriety checkpoints&#8221; or &#8220;identification stops&#8221;. It justifies the <em>Patriot Act<\/em>, and the new <em>Intelligence Reform Act<\/em>, with all their draconian intrusions on personal privacy, including the repulsive, illegal and un-Constitutional parts, such as no-warrant-required searches, a national ID card, federal snooping into our reading habits at libraries and book stores. It justifies <em>any<\/em> intrusion into private, personal, or intimate matters. After all, if someone has more than one wife (or husband), doesn&#8217;t your peace of mind require that that person be harassed, jailed, or otherwise punished for violation of <em>your<\/em> religious or moral code? It doesn&#8217;t matter that the people involved are adults who freely and willingly consent to live in that situation. For that matter, if two men or women live together, doesn&#8217;t your peace of mind require that their &#8220;immoral and ungodly&#8221; lifestyle be exposed, and the people involved publicly pilloried?<\/p>\n<p>Ron Beatty, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncc-1776.com\/tle2005\/tle309-20050306-03.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Peace of Mind&#8221;, <em>Libertarian Enterprise<\/em><\/a>, 2005-03-06.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Inconvenience would seem to be a small price to pay for peace of mind.&#8221; That one phrase sums up all the problems we are having with government in this country. It justifies the humiliating personal searches at airports. It justifies the police state tactics of &#8220;sobriety checkpoints&#8221; or &#8220;identification stops&#8221;. It justifies the Patriot Act, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,9,10,41,13],"tags":[265,154,201,911],"class_list":["post-52245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-liberty","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-patriotact","tag-privacy","tag-securitytheatre","tag-surveillance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dAF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88053,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52245\/revisions\/88053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}