By Doug Newman
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Yale’s law library.

I wish I could remember my source, but I read a few years ago that there were two million federal, state and local laws on the books in America. Couple that with the ubiquitous surveillance state that is now part of our lives. How do you know that you are not breaking one of these laws? And since you are being watched constantly, how difficult would it be for some governmental entity at some level to successfully prosecute you and ruin your life?

Not very.

In his most recent weekly blog article, John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute had this to say:

So if we already knew that the government was spying on us, what’s the big deal? And more to the point, as I often hear many Americans ask, if you’re not doing anything wrong, why should you care?

The big deal is simply this: once you allow the government to start breaking the law, no matter how seemingly justifiable the reason, you relinquish the contract between you and the government which establishes that the government works for and obeys you, the citizen—the employer—the master. And once the government starts operating outside the law, answerable to no one but itself, there’s no way to rein it back in, short of revolution.

As for those who are not worried about the government filming you when you drive, listening to your phone calls, using satellites to track your movements and drones to further spy on you, you’d better start worrying. At a time when the average American breaks at least three laws a day without knowing it thanks to the glut of laws being added to the books every year, there’s a pretty good chance that if the government chose to target you for breaking the law, they’d be able to come up with something without much effort.

Then again, for those who insist they’re not doing anything wrong, per se, perhaps they should be. Because if you’re not doing anything wrong, it just might mean that you’re not doing anything at all, which is how we got into this mess in the first place.

NSA’s new Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah. Just remember, that in every election 98 percent of voters put their stamp of approval on this form of government.