Dan Gillmor Has Penned a rather sad look at the fabled pendulum of liberty. He says liberties ebbed and flowed in America’s past, but the rights tended to come back when the crises ended. Not so this time, for several reasons.
The damage that one evil or deranged person or group can cause has grown, and the architecture of tomorrow is being embedded with the tools of a surveillance society. In other words, the “war on terrorism” can’t possibly end.
“The Bush administration’s attitude, assisted by a Congress that long since abandoned any commitment to liberty, is that government has the right to know absolutely everything about you and that government can violate your fundamental rights with impunity as long as the cause is deemed worthy.”
Recent Comments