To Glenn Greenwald: A Better Response to “I have nothing to hide”

We have nothing to hide from a government whose IRS can decide to confiscate your bank account because they claim it looks like you've been trying to skirt reporting regulations? It has happened, enough that the IRS has announced they'll no longer do this. But they decided to do it, they decided to not do it, and they can decide to do it again.

We have nothing to hide from a government whose police forces can stop your car, pressure you to allow a search, and then confiscate any money found?

We have nothing to hide from a government that has been demonstrated willing and eager to take any law and subvert it to allow just about anything they want to do? A government that routes around the Constitution?

We have nothing to hide from a government that can't even keep personnel records, security clearance investigation records, secure from internet hackers? That right there has to be the ultimate argument; they can't be trusted to keep the information they gather, legitimately or not, from criminals, regardless of any bad intent or not.

I do have something to hide from government: the keys to government.