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Sorry, but the cases are too different. The secrets of the government serve a completely different purpose than those of the citizens.
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.
“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.
Is that justification for spying on civilians?
I never say that. Thats a straw man-argument.
The government is an illegitimate state. We live in a dictatorship on stolen indigenous ground. Fuck Charles and fuck the government.
Not all of us lived in America.
Do you think I live in America when I say we live in a dictatorship and fuck Charles?