The Nazis said, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" -- and they were right! The trouble is knowing, in advance, what it is you need to hide! The Jews did not realize, until it was too late, that they needed to hide the fact that they were Jews, for instance.
Fearing government is not paranoia, it is the only safe course. The question to ask, when government wants more power, is not "Why not?"
BUMP CITY.
When people act like Americans should trust government, the question I always have to ask is, "What has government ever done for us that voluntary, private enterprise hasn't done better?"
I can't think of anything that government does now that would be excluded.