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Summary Of The Fountainhead By Ayn Rand

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Today, Ladies and Gentleman. Allow me to start off with introducing one of my favorite Russian Philosopher, Ayn Rand. The reason why I have included her in today’s debate is that she correctly understood the central importance of privacy to the underpinnings of freedom. In her 1943 novel, “The Fountainhead”, she noted that “civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy … civilization is also the process of setting man free from men". The earliest treaty regarding privacy is the US Bill of Rights drafted in the late 18th century. The notion that privacy is an essential ingredient of freedom There is a quote from Mr Bob Barr, Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the ACU that supports our very view and shows how our opponents have mistaken. …show more content…

We do not believe so. The temporary becomes permanent. Some might still be willing to accept some compromise of privacy, if only they were proven to make us safer. But in order to agree to the motion, we will inevitably have to take away our common sense, and accept the idea that you will find the “bad guys” in the “good guys”. So basically you will have to find terrorists by drilling into more and more information on non-terrorists. That is us, generally. The actual reality is that you will find your “bad guys”, if any at all, by gathering intel, all sorts of espionage and law enforcement techniques. Every second, there is money going down the drain by gathering intelligence on law –abiding, or spend time limiting their freedom is a resource not focused on the real, legitimate task of government. By compromising and penalizing our privacy which diminishes and undermines our very way of life as I quote from Bob Barr, “is not only a bad policy, it’s counter-productive.” (This is why privacy must come first.) Allow me to conclude today by reminding you something Benjamin Franklin once famously said “ Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety deserves neither Liberty nor

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