Saturday, April 09, 2005
Those crazy Yankees
Yesterday I was reading a story at Slashdot:
Paul Rosenzweig, a conservative lawyer and prominent proponent of the Pentagon's controversial Total Information Awareness project, has been appointed the first chairman of the Department of Homeland Security's privacy board. This follows the appointment of an executive of Gator to the board. Lee Tien, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says that, rather than viewing protection of privacy as priority, Rosenzweig 'tends to view privacy as something to be circumvented.' Are the foxes guarding the henhouse when it comes to government and privacy?
In the comments, a reader raised the point that the conservatives used to be fighting for more privacy laws. Another reader contributed this excellent response:
The original story is here and the comment is here
In the comments, a reader raised the point that the conservatives used to be fighting for more privacy laws. Another reader contributed this excellent response:
Get with the newspeak, bub. Today's new improved doubleplusgood American conservatives are for smaller government in the form of increased federal spending, more privacy in the form of total surveillance, state's rights in the form of Congressional meddling in individual state court cases, isolationist foreign policy in the form of overseas force projection, government transparency in the form of increased classification of documents, and high moral standards in the form of flagrant House ethics rule violations.
Stop thinking like you're in the 20th century. It's a brave new world and white is the new black.
I think this post sums up the worrying trend in American conservative politics really well. I just hope that their stranglehold on the presidency (through controversial means I might add) doesn't continue too much longer. And I hope that Australia grows up and realises that America is not such a great place after all.
The original story is here and the comment is here
# posted by Stephen Gordon @ 5:12 PM 
