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NewsForge | Who will watch the watchmen?
Topic: Civil Liberties 1:20 pm EDT, Oct  8, 2001

"Over decades, external and internal enemies come and go. Sometimes the government protects us from danger; sometimes it is the danger. Whenever there is a proposal to increase government surveillance power, we must judge it not solely in terms of the situation of the moment, but in terms of the whole range of situations that we have faced and will face again. We must use the government for our protection, but we must never stop protecting ourselves from it.

In the United States, we have developed a system to watch the watchmen: Judges watch them in some ways; the public watches them in other ways. For our safety, we must keep this system functioning. When the watchmen are really working for us, they can afford to let us check their work. When they ask us to stop checking, we must say no."

You knew RMS was going to pop up at some point.. I am sure we are going to see a trend where all the Open Source evangelists feed that just _have_ to say something about the terrorist attacks. Lets just hope they stick to the Civil Liberties angle. If Rob Malda tells me to donate blood I'm going to scream.

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