I think I've figured out a way to explain to your average Republican why warrantless wiretapping is a threat.
Suppose we really, truly decided to crack down on violent racists. We have a real good idea of who and where they are.
Now, I would like you to seriously consider: if the FBI decided these guys will be enough trouble that they need to be controlled (and if a guest worker program is implemented, that's a serious possibility), they could easily get a warrant to oversee the communications of these groups. After all, they openly espouse the violent transformation of the current government. If the government chose to get them, they could.
And if they decide to do so, how long do you think it would take...
for the FBI to follow the links...
from a skin-head kid...
to his father...
to you?
Delicious
Digg
Reddit
Newsvine
Furl
Google
Yahoo
( TIA ) (Surveilance) of
( TIA ) (Surveilance) of these folks probably won't happen because they actually serve as unwitting enforcers of the "established social order." Oh, they will on ocassions rollup some of them when international news, of their murderous deeds, is so demonic so as to make them appear as social outliers. But on the hold they would never really rollup all of them, their cultural usefulness makes this so.