It's the 'weight'

When faced with security vis-a-vis privacy issues, which will bring you off-balanced?

"Enemy of the State" exceeded my RDA, reasonable dose of angst. For one, "it's the weight" rhymes with "enemy of the state." Two, credibility hinges the scale.

The first reason should be taken more seriously than I will devour Will Smith in that physique.

Second reason elaborates the 'weight'

The choice between equally important aspect of person's life, nation's state, society's progress can be easily influenced by those who claim have the credibility.

    In the movie, the National Security Agency (NSA) claims to have saved lives, prevented crimes and protected the nation with its security tools and gadgets, and ways and means. Armed with its popularity, the party has gone more fun- not the kind of 'more fun in the Philippines' hype though, when it uses their claimed success to get away in using 'credibility' to clear whoever and whatever go against their way of absolute authority. It gets more fun when the politician in cahoots with NSA are put into weighing scale when they themselves experienced how it is to have their privacy invaded for the sake of national security.

Using credibility to achieve one's goal poses some questions:

1. Am I gullible enough to be influenced by mere credibility?

2. What makes an idea or a person for that matter credible?
Is it the action behind the words? Or the consistency in  action?

3. Do you really have to experience the things you inflict to   others to be convinced of your credibility?

4. Can there be some kind of 'body mass index' for security-privacy index?

If ambition, quest for absolute power and influence weigh more than national interest, credibility ceases to nourish.