FW: [IP] Do Americans Care About Big Brother?

Frightening!

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From: David Farber
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Sent: 3/22/2008 7:58 AM
Subject: [IP] Do Americans Care About Big Brother?

Do Americans Care About Big Brother?  (Time  March 14, 2008)

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1722537,00.html?xid=rss-t
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A quick tally of the record of civil liberties erosion in the United
States since 9/11 suggests that the majority of Americans are ready to
trade diminished privacy, and protection from search and seizure, in
exchange for the promise of increased protection of their physical
security. Polling consistently supports that conclusion, and Congress
has largely behaved accordingly, granting increased leeway to law
enforcement and the intelligence community to spy and collect data on
Americans. Even when the White House, the FBI or the intelligence
agencies have acted outside of laws protecting those rights — such as
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the public has by and large
shrugged and, through their elected representatives, suggested changing
the laws to accommodate activities that may be in breach of them.

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