[horns4lyfe]

Being willing to give up freedoms to the government whenever disasters occur is highly illiberal. After all that talk of how little you trust people with the internet, you’re telling me you trust the people in power to take your freedom and then give it back? Cmon

[thomassmith65]

If my comment seems to approve of a government reaching for emergency powers 'whenever' then I worded it poorly.

There needs to be an actual, dire emergency, and the law should lay out what the extra powers are, the process by which a government obtains them, and their duration.