Terrorists molest children
Apparently. The Bush adminstration is at it again, blurring the line between child molestation and terrorism in a new effort to spy on the real victims here--Americans. This time, they are asking Internet companies to retain data indefinitely. Why? So they can subpoena it. To stop Turrorists. And child molesterors. The usual villains that are trotted out whenever Bush and Gonzalez wish to do something that appears to be unconstitutional.
At a meeting that the Justice Department held yesterday with privacy experts, the government also alluded to the possiblity that they might want to get the data for "intellectual property" issues.
This is the real problem. These people cannot be trusted with our personal information because once they have it, they'll use it for any damn thing that they want.
Again they are reassuring Americans that they don't want the "content" of internet traffic, just the externals; who emails whom, for instance. Guilt by association.
I think that it violates our privacy, plus from the Internet company perspective, it's expensive.
I hope that the ISP (Internet Service Providers) fight this, forcing the Bushies into court. I hope that the privacy organizations sue the government to stop the practice. I hope Americans everywhere push back against this further erosion of the right to privacy.
Posted on June 02, 2006
