Tracy Zimmer's Blog (2)

I don’t think one should allow others to be tortured unless one is himself/herself willing to be tortured. The government says that it only used “enhanced interrogation techniques” on terrorists. The question is: how do we know (and for that matter, how does the government know) that that person was a terrorist? You should not have to worry about being tortured because the government made a mistake and thought you were a terrorist. You should not have to worry about being tortured because the… Continue

Liberty is essentially freedom of choice or self determinism. Governments and criminals (or do I repeat myself) are the ones most involved in taking away liberty. Usually the reduction of liberty is done under the guise of “protection”. This is what has become called the “Nanny State.” The more they try to protect us – the more freedom we loose, the more it costs us and the greater the police state becomes. For the most part, I don’t need or want the protection of the government. The war on dr… Continue