Report: War on terror violates privacy – UPI.com
“Counter-terrorism efforts rob citizens of basic privacy rights, which undermines rather than improves security, a leading European human rights official said.”
and further…“General surveillance raises serious democratic problems which are not answered by the repeated assertion that those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. This puts the onus in the wrong place: It should be for states to justify the interferences they seek to make on privacy rights…”
When will the purveyors of paranoia realize that at least one purpose of terrorism is generate fear? The best ally that terrorism has is those that over-react and throw us all into Code Red Syndrome.