I say we start putting together the clues found in common magazines and newspapers and... wait a minute.
PD is right, while I'm no great supporter of civil rights for all at any cost, having MORE criminals in the US Goverment doesn't really thrill me any. Especially when they are in positions of seemingly unchecked power. Safire's column was probably the most-posted NY Times editorial in the recent history of the adult internet. If the moderate right is worried, you can be damn sure the ACLU is approaching meltdown status.
This administration finds itself lucky to be in the midst of a situation that has the common populace very worried. They're cashing in on the spineless Democratic party, and setting up these new 'shadow government' agencies everyone was worried about right after Sept. 11th (though those were business-as-usual in all administrations since the invention of the atom bomb.)
It concerns me once it starts to be the tool of agenda. Once someone, the wrong someone, gets into one of these positions of power and starts to promote say malicious intelligence gathering targeted at pro-choice groups, things start to become problematic. There are just as many dangerous right wingers as there are left wingers, and we need to watch all the loonies equally. Once it crosses over I can't even imagine what we'll be faced with in this new information age.
I'm sure this debate will rage on, hope anything I wrote tonight made sense.
C.
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