Thursday, December 22, 2005

My Slightly Flippant Comment of the Day

To the BBC, on the Bush's brazen surveillance policies:

If we go too far in allowing surveillance, there will be no such thing as privacy, and a lot more people will go to jail for meaningless "crimes" besides terrorism, such as smoking marijuana or having sex in the wrong position. In any case, there must be standards and processes beyond arbitrarily declaring someone a terrorist and therefore beyond legal protections, or the government that is supposed to protect us will in fact become the rogues and the terrorists.

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=629&&&edition=1&ttl=20051222225026

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