'Civil Liberties in Wartime '

Ferocious

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<< So too with us. Defending civil liberties is at the heart of the baby-boomer self-image, a self-image that's been packaged and sold to adolescents ever since. However powerful and rich and snobbish we ex-teen-agers become, we still see ourselves as rebels fighting a lonely battle against overweening authority. To make that myth work, we need an overweening authority to battle?preferably one that can't fight back. >>



Interesting editorial by an ex-NSA general counsel.
 

ATLien247

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I'm all for an authoritarian government, if it means that my family and I can live without the fear of terrorism. Just so long as the line is drawn so that I have privacy within my own home, the government can keep all the information that could be used for terrorism all to themselves.