Friday, March 21, 2008

Living like choirboys

Welcome to the National Surveillance State. I wrote before that a prosecutor selects which cases to prosecute, or if politically motivated will select which people to prosecute. A politically motivated Department of Justice has certainly chosen to prosecute Democrats, such as Spitzer, and not Republicans. With the increase of surveillance (some mandated by law, some voluntary), politically motivated prosecutors have a lot more data on hand to bring down their target. Some may say that those in power should know they are going to be targeted and avoid giving others something that can be used against them. That sounds like we are asking all Democrats to live like choirboys, abstaining from all kinds of questionable activities. And we're back to the issue of who gets to decide what are questionable activities and why isn't it none of the government's business what he does in his off hours?


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