Privacy rights vs Government Responsibility
I didn't get a chance during fair week to bring this to your attention.
"A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to bar AT&T from giving the government telephone records without warrants, saying it would require disclosures that would "adversely affect our national security."
Judge Matthew F. Kennelly said disclosing whether AT&T had given such records to the supersecret National Security Agency in its hunt for terrorists would violate the government's right to keep state secrets"
Well finally a judge with a little common sense. The government has the RIGHT to keep state secrets!
This was one of those lawsuits that was brought by the ACLU on behalf of people who don't even KNOW if their records were turned over and (unless they were involved in Islamoterror) more than like have not. People like Studs Terkel - author and activist. His reasoning is "Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans."
The same people that are now suing the government, trying to tie their hands in the fight on Islamoterror, are the same ones who (on 9/12/2001) were saying "Why hasn't the government done more to protect us from this?" We can't have it both ways guys. If you want the government to "protect" you from all dangers, then you need to give up your privacy rights - because the government doesn't know what is out there to threaten you until they know everything about your life! It's simple - if you want to maintain your privacy rights then you need to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for your own life, your own actions. No more blaming corporations for not telling you not to use electrical appliances in the bathtud. No more suing the server because you spilled coffee on yourself and got burned! No more expecting "nanny" government to tell you to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle or telling you not to smoke that cigarette because it might kill you! Which will the American people choose?
"A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to bar AT&T from giving the government telephone records without warrants, saying it would require disclosures that would "adversely affect our national security."
Judge Matthew F. Kennelly said disclosing whether AT&T had given such records to the supersecret National Security Agency in its hunt for terrorists would violate the government's right to keep state secrets"
Well finally a judge with a little common sense. The government has the RIGHT to keep state secrets!
This was one of those lawsuits that was brought by the ACLU on behalf of people who don't even KNOW if their records were turned over and (unless they were involved in Islamoterror) more than like have not. People like Studs Terkel - author and activist. His reasoning is "Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans."
The same people that are now suing the government, trying to tie their hands in the fight on Islamoterror, are the same ones who (on 9/12/2001) were saying "Why hasn't the government done more to protect us from this?" We can't have it both ways guys. If you want the government to "protect" you from all dangers, then you need to give up your privacy rights - because the government doesn't know what is out there to threaten you until they know everything about your life! It's simple - if you want to maintain your privacy rights then you need to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for your own life, your own actions. No more blaming corporations for not telling you not to use electrical appliances in the bathtud. No more suing the server because you spilled coffee on yourself and got burned! No more expecting "nanny" government to tell you to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle or telling you not to smoke that cigarette because it might kill you! Which will the American people choose?
posted by The Lady Logician at
7:30 AM
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