Think your conversations with your lawyer or doctor are free from
government spying? Think again. The NSA spy program
authorized by Bush allows for warrantless wiretapping of what were once
defined by law as confidential conversations between a client and
his/her lawyer or doctor. So basically, legal protections can be
ripped up at the behest of president. The government has been far
from forthcoming about the details of the NSA spying, but has defended
its right to keep doing so, with the justification of (guess what) the
“war on terrorism”.
Here we can take a lesson from V for Vendetta – that if the
people know that what is being done is wrong but are held back by fear
to do anything to stop it, the results are horrific. That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn (
or be forced ( to accept.
Conversely, if we refuse to be paralyzed by fear, but instead take a
lesson from the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have walked out
of school and work and taken to the streets in an unprecedented
resistance, we can change the course of history.
The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
(Source: “Privileged Conversations Not Excluded From Spying”, NY Times, 3/25/06)