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Is This Where We Want to Go?

2008-07-21 10:54:06

By Donald Richter

 

Considering the hearing scheduled for this Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee as well as the closed-door meeting of top law-enforcement officials that took place in Las Vegas six weeks ago targeting the FLDS, the American people need to ask themselves whether this sort of scrutiny is what we want for all citizens.
 
Examine each American family with a fine-tooth comb. Confiscate all computer hard-drives, diaries, letters, and financial records. Monitor phone calls, and track Internet usage. Apply to every citizen the same scrutiny allowed under the Patriot Act for suspected terrorists. No one should complain. Just trust Big Brother to judge properly every intimate detail of our lives. After all, if we haven’t been doing anything illegal, what do we have to fear? And just think how much safer we will all feel, knowing that every criminal activity is properly ferreted out and the offenders brought to justice.
 
But, you object, this would produce a totalitarian regime like that George Orwell warned us against in the 1940s. 
 
Well, wake up, America! When this sort of thing is allowed against any group in our society, we are just that much closer to the day when the Police State is a reality for all of us and individual liberty is nothing but a distant memory.
 


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