Kind of interesting (if not surprising) that the "If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" line peddled by the NSA's ilk actually seems to work really well when applied to those with authority.
Any philosophy allowing unlimited or arbitrary state power over individuals turns the state, is one where the state, rather than the people, has full liberty, and is the master. That's the historical status quo (sans Greece, Rome) prior to liberalism, Locke.