{"id":804,"date":"2013-12-25T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T15:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2021-07-15T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T14:49:45","slug":"politicians-are-ridiculously-dishonest-when-they-motivate-invasion-of-privacy-by-the-world-being-more-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/politicians-are-ridiculously-dishonest-when-they-motivate-invasion-of-privacy-by-the-world-being-more-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians Are Ridiculously Dishonest When They Justify Invasion Of Privacy By The World Being More Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The world is a much safer place now than in previous years. In the 1980s, the threat was total annihilation of the entire world, and today, it\u2019s some terrorists blowing up a vehicle. Yet, politicians deceptively and dishonestly justify endemic mass surveillance by the world being \u201cmore dangerous\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/i-cant-discuss-work-with-colleagues-over-the-phone-any-more-how-did-it-come-to-this\/\">last column<\/a> on Privacy News, I asked myself the question how we arrived at the point where I can\u2019t discuss political work with my colleagues over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians are pushing this relentless hunt for our private lives by repeating a lie over and over again: that the world has become \u201cmore dangerous\u201d. This is obscenely false.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the worst \u201cthreat\u201d to society of this type is that some nutjob may blow up a bus on the other side of the continent. While such an occurrence would be nowhere good, it needs to be put into context. In the 1980s, we lived with an everpresent awareness that two superpowers held each other at nuclear gunpoint 24-by-7, and that they may push the red button at any time. When they did, there wouldn\u2019t be a tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Every night when we went to sleep, we were aware that tomorrow might not come, if that button was pushed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is arguably a level of difference between the entire world disintegrating, as in the 1980s, and a bus blowing up somewhere, as today. And it\u2019s absolutely not in the \u201cmore dangerous\u201d direction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to communicate just how ever-present the fear of nuclear annihilation was, so I\u2019ll quote the first verse from the ballad <em>Forever Young<\/em> by Alphaville, a track that happened to be released in 1984:<\/p>\n<p><em>Let\u2019s dance in style, let\u2019s dance for a while<br>\nHeaven can wait, we\u2019re only watching the skies \u2013<br>\nHoping for the best, but expecting the worst:<br>\nAre you gonna drop the bomb or not?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For people growing up today, it will come across as odd \u2013 distasteful, even \u2013 to be slow-dancing cheek to cheek to such a message. But that\u2019s how everpresent the threat of total annihilation was. We were quite literally falling in love with each other to ballads about nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I survived the 1980s. Don\u2019t try to scare me with terrorism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very troubling to see how many are buying this outrageous lie \u2013 that the world would have become \u201cmore dangerous\u201d. For the ordinary citizen, it certainly hasn\u2019t: it\u2019s become remarkably safer on several orders of magnitude. But terrorism is <em>useful<\/em>, as it allows any kind of restrictions in liberty to pass unchallenged.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the numbers, this has simply no basis in measurable facts. In Europe, on average, 40 people die per year from terrorism. That\u2019s in an area with 500 million people. To put that in perspective, <a href=\"http:\/\/falkvinge.net\/2012\/11\/15\/we-should-be-spending-billions-fighting-bathtubs-not-terrorism\/\">five times<\/a> as many die from drowning in bathtubs, and over <a href=\"http:\/\/falkvinge.net\/2012\/11\/15\/we-should-be-spending-billions-fighting-bathtubs-not-terrorism\/\">a hundred times<\/a> as many die from falling down staircases.<\/p>\n<p>Are we spending billions preventing bathtub drownings? No? Then there\u2019s obviously something else at work here.<\/p>\n<p>Terrorism has become the modern version of what communism was in the 1950s, comic books in the 1940s, and jazz music in the 1930s. It\u2019s a scare that can motivate any measure, no matter how ridiculous, and more importantly, no matter how eroding to civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t come as a big surprise when Edward Snowden revealed that the mass surveillance never had been supposed to target terrorism, but that its purpose was always economic, political, diplomatic, and social dominance. The ability to discredit an adversary.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s up to all of us to call politicians out on the lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is a much safer place now than in previous years. In the 1980s, the threat was total annihilation of the entire world, and today, it\u2019s some terrorists blowing up a vehicle. Yet, politicians deceptively and dishonestly justify endemic mass surveillance by the world being \u201cmore dangerous\u201d. 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