Monday, January 23, 2006
Protect the Fourth before you lose the First
Bob Herbert peaks to the unspoken damage done by Our Dear Embattled Leaders illegal spying on Americans. In his column today he puts forth the idea that if you know your government is listening, what you say will be carefully guarded.
"The more people grow accustomed to a listening environment in which the ear of Big Brother is assumed to be behind every wall, behind every e-mail, and invisibly present in every electronic communication, telephonic or otherwise - that is the kind of society, as people grow accustomed to it, in which you can end up being boiled to death without ever noticing that the water is getting hotter, degree by degree.Just like in the old Soviet Union.
"The background assumptions of privacy will be gradually eroded to the point where we'll wake up one day, or our children will, and it will seem quaint that people at one time, long ago, thought that they could speak in candor."
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