On domestic spying, we the people are to blame
Austin American-Statesman
by Edwin Dorn
02/07/06
We should not expect a president to be assiduous about protecting Americans' personal privacy and individual rights. Even during peacetime, that has seldom been a priority for the executive branch. Throughout our country's history, the initiative to protect individual rights has come from private citizens, their representatives in Congress and civil liberties groups. The problem presented by domestic spying, therefore, is not that the executive branch has overreached. It is that the public has not pushed back. We The People have tended to treat the war on terror as a spectator event. We watched as hundreds of men and boys were taken from Afghanistan to a detention center in Cuba and held there for years without means of redress. We accepted the creation of a new category of people -- 'enemy combatants' -- who can be denied even the rudimentary rights afforded to convicts and prisoners of war...
http://tinyurl.com/82jfr
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Edwin Dorn
02/07/06
We should not expect a president to be assiduous about protecting Americans' personal privacy and individual rights. Even during peacetime, that has seldom been a priority for the executive branch. Throughout our country's history, the initiative to protect individual rights has come from private citizens, their representatives in Congress and civil liberties groups. The problem presented by domestic spying, therefore, is not that the executive branch has overreached. It is that the public has not pushed back. We The People have tended to treat the war on terror as a spectator event. We watched as hundreds of men and boys were taken from Afghanistan to a detention center in Cuba and held there for years without means of redress. We accepted the creation of a new category of people -- 'enemy combatants' -- who can be denied even the rudimentary rights afforded to convicts and prisoners of war...
http://tinyurl.com/82jfr
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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