[Triple Word Score]

For our own good, they removed any privacy that we think we have in favor of allowing the government to take any measures it deems necessary to discern any malicious intent any of us may harbor....

If there was anything of substance after this, this reader will just have to do without it. Privacy for the average law-abiding citizen has been absolutely unaffected by post-9/11 legislation. Meetings in mosques known to harbor anti-American mullahs still go unmonitored.

This article is horse manure.

[sinkspur]

Privacy for the average law-abiding citizen has been absolutely unaffected by post-9/11 legislation.

This deserves to be repeated.

[elbucko]

This article is horse manure.

I agree. It would seem that the whole reason to write the article was to express some of the writers insecurities, namely:

And no amount of gun-toting servicemen or phone-tapping FBI agents will make me less afraid.

Its an anti Bush / Ashcroft screed, disguised as bravado.

[FLAMING DEATH]

"It is the habit we have developed of sacrificing personal freedom and convenience in favor of increased security, almost always in reaction to an isolated incident which we are afraid to treat as such."

Sounds a lot like:

"They that can give up essential iberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Privacy is unaffected?

Two weeks ago I transferred twenty five thousand dollars from one local bank to another. Instead of the old b.s. five day wait and an intrusive little form, my account is frozen til jan 5th.

I might be a terrorist laundering money.

Doesn't matter that the money was earned and taxes paid a decade ago or that I've had both accounts for fifteen years.

It's not my money until some pinhead beauracrat says it's ok.

[bimbo]

Privacy for the average law-abiding citizen has been absolutely unaffected by post-9/11 legislation.

And when the Patriot-Act-patriots decide to scour someone's medical records, tap his phone, and take his property, will that make him above average or below average?

[FreedomCalls]

Privacy for the average law-abiding citizen has been absolutely unaffected by post-9/11 legislation.

Sounds like someone who has not had their underwear searched at an airport or been made to drink their own breast milk by federal airport security screeners.