Why indeed...
Posted By: MTRE on 2006-01-18
In Reply to: Hitchens asks "What Reason Do We Have to Trust the State - PK
...when every time we turn around we find the current administration taking the worst advantage possible?
Hitchens bothers me a little bit though. Toward the end there he seems to imply that Bush may change the rules for the right reasons now, and the problem is that later administrations may use the new rules in dangerous ways.
It seems pretty obvious, though, that proceeding with surveillance that both the courts and the Congress have said NO to is really bad behavior, and you just can't justify it for ANY reason. That's already dangerous and illegal behavior happening right here and now, not in some mythical future decade. It's not a maybe some day problem, it's a right now in your face disaster.
What do you think PK? Can I ask also where you got the article? He used to write for The Nation, but I don't read that anymore - is he still there?
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