Frontline: Spying on the Home Front
It’s not secret that I’m not a big fan of giving up our civil liberties or the rights afforded us by the Constitution for a sense of security, often a false sense of a security. But one of the biggest problems arguing against the various abuses of our privacy by the current Bush administration has been the belief many people have that “only the bad people will be affected”. It’s this willful ignorance and willingness to turn a blind eye that allows governments to take advantage of their citizenry. For those of you who believe this way, I urge you to watch the recent Frontline show entitled: Spying on the Home Front. You can even watch it online at PBS.org. After you’re done and you’ve got that sick feeling in your gut that occurs when you realize that you’ve been betraying the ideals, indeed the very foundations of your nation out of sheer laziness and fear, take a moment to do something simple: join the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization that is fighting to protect our privacy in this new, digital age where the old rules are being ignored and new ones have not yet been made.
