President George Washington's Brief Reflections on Google and the NSA

 George Washington’s Reflection on Google and the NSA

"My Fellow Americans,

It is with no small concern that I observe the union of immense power and unbounded secrecy in the hands of private enterprises and government alike. The ability to collect, store, and surveil the private correspondence of citizens—through mechanisms beyond the understanding of many—poses a grave threat to the foundations of our republic.

Let it be remembered that liberty is the soul of a free people, and no nation can remain free when the conduct of its government or its instruments is cloaked in shadows. Should any entity, be it a corporation or an agency of state, amass the capability to monitor the lives of individuals without their consent, they have, in effect, placed a yoke of tyranny upon the people.

Google’s vast repositories of personal information, when intertwined with the surveillance apparatus of the NSA, call to mind the very centralization of power against which our revolution was waged. No government or corporation should hold such dominion over the private lives of free citizens. The principles of transparency and accountability must guide us, or we risk descending into a state of despotism, where freedom exists only in name.

The question before us is not one of convenience or security, but of principle. Let us not surrender the rights for which we fought so dearly in the name of expediency. A republic must balance the scales of liberty and security, always erring toward the preservation of the former.

May Providence guide us in safeguarding the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity."

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