GOVERNMENT TURNS CITIZENS INTO CRIMINALS BY TRYING TO MAKE THEM SAFE

by Mr. Mean-Spirited

If constant government surveillance is going to treat everyone like a potential terrorist, then you ought to become an antisocial criminal just to spite the authorities. The more that the police try to clamp-down on crime, the more that ordinary citizens will then become outlaws out of sheer self-defense. If retail stores consider you as a possible thief with all their leering security cameras, then you need to shoplift just to cut the bastards down to size. Since the overlords want to keep track of your Internet habits on the chance that you might be inclined to download snuff films, then you should go ahead and become a filthy pervert just to teach them a lesson. Since your employer wants to drug-test your urine, you've got to become a substance abuser just to show them who is really boss.

If the ruling class is so afraid that you might act "intolerant" that it is willing to force you into sensitivity-training camps, then the only way to get back at the humanitarians is to be certain that everything you now utter is unashamedly hateful. If your elected representatives diligently try to eliminate hate-speech, you need to become a total bigot in order to retain your dignity. If the revenue-agents are going to behave as if you were a tax cheat, then you must transform yourself into a scofflaw in order to maintain your self-worth. Since the border guards want to search your possessions when you return to the country, you need to become the most skilled smuggler in history just to defend your honor.  Since the police want only confiscate a taxpayer's weapons in order to make him a better citizen, then you had better cache and conceal your deadly arsenal just to keep your self-respect. 

Nothing is more sure to get a non-violent person to start thinking about plastic firearms than requiring him to pass through a metal detector. Nothing is more assured to change a law-abiding citizen into an antisocial hooligan than having a cop ask him a few questions at a checkpoint. Nothing is more certain to turn a valued staff-member into a bitter loner than forcing him to go through a team-building exercise on the job.
 

If the authoritarians worry that you might be up to no good, then you should take the hint and devote the rest of your life to evil. Whatever crimes the ruling class supposes that you are on the verge of committing shows exactly the way that the totalitarians can be defeated. Whatever the overseers suspect you of doing is precisely what you damn well should be doing. 

The more the bureaucrats try to protect you from yourself, the more you need to fashion yourself into exactly what the busybodies are trying to suppress. Whenever the authorities try to diminish your personality by restraining your self-expression, the only way to preserve your sanity is to devote the rest of your life to making those very same officials pay. Whenever smug do-gooders tell you that some new regulation is "only for your own good," the free individual has a moral duty to get even with these meddling officials. Whenever the government tries to make you "safe" by restricting your freedom, you need to become the outlaw that every bureaucrat secretly fears.

If the liberals treat you like crap, then you need to give them shit.