The American government currently has a police-state zeal to spy on Americans with no warrants and to protect telecom companies from litigation or criminal prosecution when they break the law. High-profile media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal editorial page are calling those who would oppose this government overreaching the "anti- anti-terror left." If you really parse that phrase carefully that means we who value privacy and a nation of laws and the right to bring those who do wrong to you to court -- we decent Americans, in other words -- are pro terrorist and therefore possibly enemy combatants because George W. Bush says so. Nice.
So, if this thing, this "new and improved" FISA bill a.k.a. the "Protect America Act" or whatever the fuck you call it becomes law, we have a reasonable right to be concerned for our well-being whenever we have a heated political discussion on our cell phone or sign a petition online in protest of the government. Are we prepared to live the way we do without relying on cell phones or email? Or, at least, we the people that make up 75% of the U.S. population who call themselves decent Americans and happen to not like this president.
I, for one, am concerned. We are we going to do about it?
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