Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Its also interesting to note that those who are paranoid about government, surveillance etc actually share more in common with worst of humanity than the best. Their paranoia, they want you to know, is always in the interest of the "oppressed". The paranoia. The warnings. The red flags. They are constantly wailing that "they" are coming to get you. They appoint themselves your protectors. The let it be known that their intentions are noble and pure. They want you to know that they, not you are there to protect the innocent.

Yet...every brutal dictator in the world came to power under the guise of "freeing the people" from tyranny and espousing the very same ideas. Then of course, most went on to terrorize them and in many cases, dive right into a few rounds of genocide, slaughtering innocents by the 10s of 1000s or in greater numbers in the name of helping others, in "justice", in the name of the "greater good" and so on.

All any tyrant needs is a monster to fight against, the charisma to convince others he's going to save the people from that monster and he can win most of the crowd to his side. This happens all over the world, all the time and the "monster" is almost never a real or tangible thing... it's simply perceived or imagined.