Patriot Act Besieged
The objective of the Patriot Act [is to make] the population visible and the Justice Department invisible. The Act inverts the constitutional requirement that people's lives be private and the work of government officials be public; it instead crafts a set of conditions that make our inner lives transparent and the workings of government opaque. - Elaine Scarry, "Acts of Resistance," Harper's Magazine, May 2004 What puzzles me about the current situation is that the administration knows damn well that the Patriot Act is unpopular and probably costing them votes from people who care about liberty. They have acknowledged the unpopularity of the measures by splitting Patriot II up into many different bills, and by their funding games with Total Information Awareness. And yet they continue to soldier on. Are we witnessing the birth of martial law by a government with demonstrated unconcern for the will of the people? |
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