--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Gabriel wrote: > > Doubleplus ungood. > > http://www.all-the-other-names-were-taken.com/tipstips.html > > > > Perhaps we could just mark their emails with this instead: > > o > > / \ > > > > Good NYT article linked: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/26/opinion/26KAYA.html?ex=1062475200&en=c90e0fabaad4b6b1&ei=5070 > > or > > http://makeashorterlink.com/?E370231C5 > > " So the recent brainstorm by the Justice Department to enlist > couriers, meter readers, cable installers and telephone repairmen to > snoop on people's private lives for anything "suspicious" dredged a > cold and until now forgotten feeling from the pit of my stomach. > Many have objected that such a program would violate civil liberties > and basic American principles. But stoking people's fear to set > neighbor upon neighbor, service worker upon client, those who belong > against those who don't, does something more: it erodes the soul of > the watcher and the watched, replacing healthy national pride with > mute suspicion, breeding insular individuals more concerned with > self-preservation than with society at large. Ultimately it creates > a climate that is inherently antithetical to security." >
I was going to respond to this, but then, I wonder if it would be wise? ===== _________________________________________________ Jan William Coffey _________________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l