Interesting. In May Stratfor had an editorial on the Patriot Act:
What we are describing here is neither a Democratic nor a Republican disease. It is a problem of governments. They are not particularly trustworthy in the way they use laws or programs. More precisely, an extraordinary act is passed to give the government the powers to fight an extraordinary enemy -- in these examples, the Mafia or al Qaeda. But governments will tend to extend this authority and apply it to ordinary events. How long, then, before the justification for tracking telephone calls is extended to finding child molesters, deadbeat dads and stolen car rings?
Well, let's hope not too long as regards the car rings. It seems such rings are providing our enemies with one means of launching car bomb attacks in Iraq. I am, by nature, a civil Libertarian. However, I also sense a strain of Libertarianism in some that results in their being so blinded over worrying about freedom, that they fail to take into account the complexities of the world today.
Granted, we need to seek a balance. But where that balance is isn't always so easy to say. Gateway Pundit has the story on the stolen car issue.
The FBI's counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering that some of the vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior government officials.
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