- There are colors in the sky this morning. How very strange and wonderful — it prompted me to post something.
- As Bill points out, Media attention uneven on civil liberty threats.
I won’t give away the punchline, but it’s stuff I noticed at the time. [endwar]When the President claimed to possess
inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches for foreign intelligence purposes,
the media paid little attention.When the administration requested greater FBI authority to conduct
moving wiretaps
without a court order, the media paid little attention.When the President supported the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which called for telephone companies to retrofit their systems and equipment to facilitate police surveillance, the media paid little attention.
When the administration used the IRS to harass and intimidate its
enemies,
the media paid little attention.When the President issued Executive Order 12949 which authorized the attorney general
to approve physical searches, without a court order,
the media paid little attention. - Warren points out that the Democrats’ Privacy Push for the 2006 election cycle might just backfire the way the Army’s wondering if Arlo Guthrie was
moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein’ a litterbug
did. Warren also asks Whose Civil Liberties am I Protecting? and points out that when you hearsuspected terrorist
you might want to thinkinnocent person
. But neither the stupid party nor the evil party seems to think that we might notice their hypocrisy. [coyote blog] - St. Paul has already looked at it, and now the Minneapolis City Council plans study on bringing back city’s streetcars. I’ve got mixed feelings about the proposal. Part of me would like to see streetcars, but another part of me thinks about the cost and what a headache tracks in the street are when you’re on a bike. I guess the good thing about streetcars is that since they run in the street, there are unlikely to be any eminent domain issues. [press-patch]