--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jon Gabriel wrote:
> > Doubleplus ungood.
> > http://www.all-the-other-names-were-taken.com/tipstips.html
> >
> > Perhaps we could just mark their emails with this instead:
> > o
> > / \
> >
>
> Good NYT article linked:
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/26/opinion/26KAYA.html?ex=1062475200&en=c90e0fabaad4b6b1&ei=5070
>
> or
>
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?E370231C5
>
> " So the recent brainstorm by the Justice Department to enlist
> couriers, meter readers, cable installers and telephone repairmen to
> snoop on people's private lives for anything "suspicious" dredged a
> cold and until now forgotten feeling from the pit of my stomach.
> Many have objected that such a program would violate civil liberties
> and basic American principles. But stoking people's fear to set
> neighbor upon neighbor, service worker upon client, those who belong
> against those who don't, does something more: it erodes the soul of
> the watcher and the watched, replacing healthy national pride with
> mute suspicion, breeding insular individuals more concerned with
> self-preservation than with society at large. Ultimately it creates
> a climate that is inherently antithetical to security."
>
I was going to respond to this, but then, I wonder if it would be wise?
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