"We need protection from government more than we need protection from criminals"

we need to understand, and understand very clearly, that democratic control of congress is not going to save us... bush and his criminal administration have to be stopped...

Americans have forgot[ten] that we need protection from government more than we need protection from criminals. Once we cut down civil liberty so that police may better pursue criminals and terrorists, where do we stand when government turns on us?

This is the famous question asked by Sir Thomas More in the play, A Man for All Seasons. The answer is that we stand naked, unprotected by law. It is an act of the utmost ignorance and stupidity to assume that only criminals and terrorists will stand unprotected.

Americans should be roused to fury that attorney general Alberto Gonzales and vice president Cheney have condemned the defense of American civil liberty as "a grave threat to US security." This blatant use of an orchestrated and propagandistic fear to create a "national security" wedge against the Bill of Rights is an impeachable offense.

Mark my words, the future of civil liberty in the US depends on the impeachment and conviction of Bush, Cheney, and Gonzales.

i had a doctor appointment today... i was describing the seizure of my laptop as i was going through u.s. customs this past june in san francisco... "they can't do THAT," he exclaimed... "oh, yes, they CAN," i replied...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that border police may randomly search laptop computers without search warrants or probable cause, News.com reports. The decision was the result of a business traveler protesting the warrantless search and seizure of his laptop at the Canadian border by the U.S. Homeland Security Department. According to the court, it is permissible for searches to include the seizing of laptops and forensic analysis. Judge Carlos Bea wrote the opinion for the court, which found that the forensic analysis of the laptop in question "was permissible without probable cause or a warrant under the border search doctrine." Two other judges joined him in the unanimous ruling.

three weeks they had it before sending it back... three weeks... no reason given... welcome to george bush's america...

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