[quote=pri_dk][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Pri: How many of your rights and liberties need to be seriously undermined before you stand up and take notice? I know you’re largely here for the witty repartee and the unalloyed joy of tweaking noses, but we as a nation are watching idly as the whole house is getting pulled down and we seem only able to muster snarky comments.[/quote]
Allan, I have noticed.
I’ve noticed that everyone here has nothing to offer but comments.
No one has offered a solution or even a suggestion – what do we actually do?
For my part, last year I started sending checks to the ACLU. These problems have to be resolved in the courts, and the ACLU is one of the organizations that can actually make it happen. My donations are a drop in the bucket, but it is something.
Walter makes an important point. There are a lot of civil liberties issues in this country, and the stuff you mention are the least of them, IMO. I fear my local police department far more than I fear the CIA or NSA. And I’m a white guy.[/quote]
Pri: What to do? GET INVOLVED. I’d be curious as to how many folks on this board even know who their representatives are. Writing checks to the ACLU is a good start. Do you also participate on any of the ACLU advisory councils on civil liberties? Take advantage of the ACLU’s letter writing campaigns?
As to Walter’s point on incarceration: It is all of a piece; it’s all interconnected. There is no disconnect between what’s happening with the NSA, CIA, DHS, etc and the state and local law enforcement community. Where do you think state and local law enforcement get their data? Or their money for all those new, shiny militaristic toys they run around with? Yup, also part of the American Security State’s “War on Terror”.
