December 29, 2005

Liberals and privacy

By Christopher Chantrill
We all know what the NSA surveillance case is about.  It is about liberals living in a bubble.  Liberals think that the issue is government spying and the Bush administration's overall hostility towards civil liberties, but they are wrong. Anyway, everyone does it.  Thanks to the conservative blogosphere we know that it isn't just the Bush administration that commits electronics eavesdropping without a search warrant.  Every president reserves the right to do it.  Even sainted Democratic ones. Why are liberals so sensitive about the government's national security spying?  Doesn't everyone agree that the first duty of government to protect its citizens from enemies foreign and domestic?  Not quite. Sometimes liberals in their idealistic youth say things and do things that were better kept private. Were liberals dabbling in communism in the 1930s?  Did some of them actually pass sensitive documents to the Soviets during the very time that...(Read Full Article)