The Free Liberal
by Jonathan David Morris

12/21/05

On Wednesday, an NBC report revealed that the Pentagon has been actively spying on 'suspicious' anti-war groups -- among them, apparently, a group of Floridian Quakers (also known as the more sinister-sounding 'Society of Friends'). Two days later, the New York Times unleashed a report of its own, which revealed that the National Security Agency has been monitoring the international emails and phone calls of hundreds, even thousands of Americans at any given time -- the result of a secret order signed off by President Bush in 2002. Finally, in the midst of all this, the House of Representatives crawled out of its hole, got scared of its shadow, and crawled back in for several more years of unconstitutional searches and seizures (which is my long, drawn-out way of saying the House voted to renew the Patriot Act; the Senate, however, has yet to do so). Basically, if you ever sat around thinking, 'You know what I could use right now? One solid week of government encroachments,' last week was the week you've been waiting for...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp