second and third that.
28 Jul 2005 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaigouI seriously heart the Rude Pundit. Today he's writing about the random searches in NYC [read more about what to do if you walk into one], and observes:
This is the warped logic of our discussions of civil liberties: if you are a good, lawful person, then you shouldn't mind having yourself probed, spied on, and frisked. Principles like the Fourth Amendment are merely covers for the guilty.
Read the whole thing.
And this, I want stapled on the forehead of every politico on the hill, right where they can see it and can't frickin' miss it, no matter what:
In an ideal America, government should be open to the sunshine and air, and citizens' lives should be private. But the Bush administration has reversed this foundational principle.
Which in a nutshell sums up the majority of what has me so uncertain about the state of our nation, these days.
This is the warped logic of our discussions of civil liberties: if you are a good, lawful person, then you shouldn't mind having yourself probed, spied on, and frisked. Principles like the Fourth Amendment are merely covers for the guilty.
Read the whole thing.
And this, I want stapled on the forehead of every politico on the hill, right where they can see it and can't frickin' miss it, no matter what:
In an ideal America, government should be open to the sunshine and air, and citizens' lives should be private. But the Bush administration has reversed this foundational principle.
Which in a nutshell sums up the majority of what has me so uncertain about the state of our nation, these days.