The Left Should Welcome the Surveillance Society

The Left Should Welcome the Surveillance Society

I suppose the Left is still harboring some embarrassment concerning the excesses of the Stalin Period, but wait, didn’t all the corruptions, the criminals and the black-markets, which spoiled the Soviet Experiment, didn’t all that arise AFTER the so-called Stalinistic ‘excesses’ were brought to a halt. Hmmmm. History might examine for the possibility that the people that Stalin sent to the Gulag, in the effective majority of the cases, belonged there.

But the Anti-Soviet Propaganda, if not true, was very influential. So now that a Left that should by its nature wish to know everything, control everything, maintains, instead, a doctrine exactly the same as the most Nazi Anarchist Libertarian – that the most sacred right of a person in a Liberal Democratic Society is enough Privacy so that his criminal behavior cannot be detected. Well, we know why Libertarians wish to protect Crime and Corruption. But what interest does the Left have in advancing private predatory behavior?

And we should consider that the Left is always losing because it seems soft on Law and Order Issues. Well, this is a ridiculous surrender. The Left, in all of its History, should be quite comfortable with the most rigorous Law and Order. Russia had its Surveillance. China too. Why does the Western Left think it must blind itself and let the thieves run free?

But now the Left may have a more compelling argument for taking back its rightful heritage – International Terrorism. Yes, people can use the specter of International Terrorism to frighten people into adopting programs that would ordinarily be counter to the American Traditions of protecting the privacy of Corruption and Crime. However, the unfortunate Truth is that the threat of International Terrorism is real. As much as I can sympathize with the plight of the Palestinian, or share in the laments of the Pan-Islamic World that the West has been unfairly encroaching upon their Culture, Economies and Traditions, still, my first concern is that some crazy muslim fanatic not blow up any more buildings or airplanes (if not for loss of life, but only because all the NEW Security would multiply the irritations we must put up with).

We have the technology. A Total Surveillance World would quickly put an end to the possibility of anyone ever being able to purchase weapons or bombs, transport weapons or bombs, or plan for their deployment. Will Privacy suffer. Sure. But Honest People have nothing to hide. And if you are not Honest, then screw you and you deserve it!