• Endward23
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    9 months ago

    Sorry, but the cases are too different. The secrets of the government serve a completely different purpose than those of the citizens.

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      9 months ago

      Or so you are told by people unwilling to be under strict oversight from independent authorities.

      “I do this for good reasons, trust me” is not a valid argument.

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        9 months ago

        “I do this for good reasons, trust me” is not a valid argument.

        Yes. The problem is, when one country has had a intelligence agency and the other has not, the one with the agency has a advantage. At least, under the same conditions.

        I see the tension between a republican (res publica, “thing of the public”) State and the existence of such secrets. The question is if a state without this could exist under the current circumstances. There are a lot room for doubts here, I fear.

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        9 months ago

        I never say that. Thats a straw man-argument.

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      9 months ago

      The government is an illegitimate state. We live in a dictatorship on stolen indigenous ground. Fuck Charles and fuck the government.