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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT dtnspeed.net>]

<<This morning, The New York Times is running a story that includes results 
of a poll on the wiretap issue. "Fifty-three percent of the respondents 
said they supported eavesdropping without warrants 'in order to reduce the 
threat of terrorism.'" And: "In one striking finding, respondents 
overwhelmingly supported e-mail and telephone monitoring directed at 
'Americans that the government is suspicious of;' they overwhelmingly 
opposed the same kind of surveillance if it was aimed at 'ordinary
Americans.'">>

Aw shit! If we don't know enough about our own government to have these
views, I suppose we deserve what we get. I just had a hot argument with a
good friend about the necessity for unsupervised wiretapping (or whatever it
is in this advanced electronic age) to ensure (Hah!) civilian safety. She is
exactly the same age as I am, and can't have forgotten how government
surveillance went wild during the Viet Nam era and before.

<<The White House will make its case, the press will sell, excite and
inform, 
the DC Whorehouse will pose, posture and seek political gain, the Supremes 
will await the case, and we, the elevated members of the Homestead List, 
will observe and react, ever alert to waning freedom. This is our America 
in the sunrise days of the twenty-first century.>>

I'm blessed with two decent senators, Durbin and Obama, who don't seem to be
charter members of the whorehouse. Still, they both appear to believe that
we live in reasonable times where civility still has a function. Sadly, I'm
beginning to think this is no longer true.

Oh, and by the way, if anyone still thinks torture is a reasonable option,
take in this video:
http://209.144.51.202/publiclives/index.asp?schedid=390&segid=6497.

Marie


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