Re: If you have nothing to hide . . . nothing to worry about
Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 4:48 am
brekin » Fri Jun 14, 2013 3:38 pm wrote:If you have nothing to hide . . . nothing to worry about.
That is a pretty easy one. Next time some one says that just ask them for their email password, their house key or to look through their wallet, etc.
If they balk just tell them "if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about."
So ask them again. The dialogue will probably go like this.
"Let me have your email password."
"But I don't want to."
"Why, do you have something to hide?"
"No."
"Then you have nothing to worry about, let me have your email password."
"I don't want to."
"Then you have something to hide."
"No, it just isn't any of your business, it's private."
"But if I worked for the government it would be ok, right?"
"Well, um...
Yeah, exactly. End of story.
And wasn't that basically Greenwald's response when he was hit with that on some dumbass talking-head show?