Re: [privacy] U.S. Government to Ask Courts to Toss Phone

[der Mouse <mouse () Rodents Montreal QC CA>]

> [...] the "war on drugs" [...] the "war on terrorism".

> One is series of actions against an entity that makes money by
> selling chemicals that are illegal in the United States.

Not really; more like "against a large number of entities".  How large
the number is depends on exactly where you draw the lines between
entities; in many cases I suspect those lines are very hard to draw
clearly unless you count each involved person as a separate entity.

> The other is a series of actions against an entity that would like to
> see every last infidel wiped off the face of the planet.

Which is an excellent description of why calling it "on terrorism" is
just propaganda spin: it isn't on terrorism, it's on a vaguely-defined
set of Middle Eastern extremists.  (Many of them are terrorists.  Many
terrorists are among them.  Neither is a subset of the other.)  In any
case, it is not against any even-moderately-well-defined single entity.

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