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Re: WORTH READING Do Americans Care About Big Brother?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:30:09 -0700
________________________________________ From: Mark Blacknell [mb () blacknell net] Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:01 PM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Do Americans Care About Big Brother? That Time piece is an execrable bit of "journalism". Glenn Greenwald, lawyer and Salon columnist, has an excellent dissection of it at http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/17/time/index.html "No matter how corrupt and sloppy the establishment press becomes, they always find a way to go lower. Time Magazine has just published what it purports to be a news article by Massimo Calabresi claiming that "nobody cares" about the countless abuses of spying powers by the Bush administration; that "Americans are ready to trade diminished privacy, and protection from search and seizure, in exchange for the promise of increased protection of their physical security"; and that the case against unchecked government surveillance powers "hasn't convinced the people." Not a single fact -- not one -- is cited to support these sweeping, false opinions." Glenn goes on to knock down, point by point, the core claims of the article. Well worth reading. Mark ~ Mark Blacknell +1.202.270.5909 http://blacknell.net On 3/22/08 7:58 AM, "David Farber" <dave () farber net> wrote:
________________________________________ From: Bill Daul [bdaul () pacbell net] Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 5:24 AM To: David Farber Subject: Do Americans Care About Big Brother? Do Americans Care About Big Brother? (Time March 14, 2008) http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1722537,00.html?xid=rss-topstor ies A quick tally of the record of civil liberties erosion in the United States since 9/11 suggests that the majority of Americans are ready to trade diminished privacy, and protection from search and seizure, in exchange for the promise of increased protection of their physical security. Polling consistently supports that conclusion, and Congress has largely behaved accordingly, granting increased leeway to law enforcement and the intelligence community to spy and collect data on Americans. Even when the White House, the FBI or the intelligence agencies have acted outside of laws protecting those rights ‹ such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ‹ the public has by and large shrugged and, through their elected representatives, suggested changing the laws to accommodate activities that may be in breach of them. ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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