Mystery writer sounds civil liberties alarm

Bob Cox pointed to This One on Sara Paretsky, who plans to speak out on what she perceives as the erosion of personal privacy and freedoms in America, Paretsky’s topic will be “Writing in an Age of Silence: Truth, Lies, or Duct Tape.”

“I’m scared by the way our civil liberties are disappearing,” she said in a telephone interview. “The events of the last 18 months are really both silencing Americans and causing us to live under a toxic cloud of lies and silence.”