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The Right to Be Left Alone

Larry Flynt: We’ve got to start leaving people alone unless they’re violating the law. 
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The greatest right that any nation can afford its people is the right to be left alone and that’s what we’ve got to do.  We’ve got to start leaving people alone unless they’re violating the law. 

That’s very important, but the government seems to always want to be more intrusive into our private lives and the problem with that is that most people are so passive and ignorant that they stand still and allow this to happen.  They think they don’t have a voice, they can’t make a difference.

But you can make a difference and you need to create a revolving door in Washington and keep voting those politicians out until they get it, until they understand that they have to be more responsive to the people.  

In Their Own Words is recorded in Big Think’s studio.

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