Can we translate this stupid arguement into German so it can be put into context, complete with sound track of jack boots marching off to the Nuremburg rally.
Wenn Sie unschuldig sind, haben Sie nichts sich zu verstecken, so warum Sorge über Leitung das Klopfen.
There thats more like it.
However often it has been repeated at least Americans are not sucked in by it.
They oppose the illegal (and dare I say IMPEACH - able offense, a real impeachable offense, not like lying to the American public about a girl and a cigar, ) wiretapping of the Bush Administration.
NBC Wall St. Journal poll finds 53% oppose the warrantless wiretapping.
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Yeah. Privacy is mad pimp.
ReplyDeleteWell said Ian but I disagree. You have proposed this about rights as in human rights or civil rights.I would say there is an inherent assumption of privacy, you said right, I think under the law it is called assumption of privacy and it goes back to your post office analogy. You talked about a post card, the idea of privacy arises during the 18th centruy with postal services, something Kropotkin admired about 'government', and which Habermas talks about when discussing the rise of civil society as different from the State. The inherent assumption of what goes on behind closed doors is private is a bourgoise value of the enlightments. And it applies to postal notes cause they are sealed. In order to read my letter to you someone would have to open the letter. Thus violating my assumption of privacy. That is what Bush and company are doing they are viewing lots and lots of phone calls, email, letters, etc.
ReplyDeleteAnyways I view warrantless wiretapping, warrantless search and seizures, warrantless arrest the same way. If the state has a case, make it before a judge and get a warrent. Without it the whole rule of law thingee goes out the window.