Government is Your Best Friend
Matthew Yglesias on the latest attack on American values by this administration:
One thing the Bush administration says it can do with this meta-data is to start tapping your calls and listening in, without getting a warrant from anyone. Having listened in on your calls, the administration asserts that if it doesn't like what it hears, it has the authority to detain you indefinitely without trial or charges, torture you until you confess or implicate others, extradite you to a Third World country to be tortured, ship you to a secret prison facility in Eastern Europe, or all of the above. If, having kidnapped and tortured you, the administration determines you were innocent after all, you'll be dumped without papers somewhere in Albania left to fend for yourself.Government is mother, government is father. (Adapted from a slogan in Babylon 5.)
posted by Doc at 2:27 PM
1 Comments:
That can't be possible. I think I am starting to understand why you hate this administration so much. The very idea that our government could do this is frightening. It almost sounds like something you would see on 24. At least its half-over.
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