Good quote: In a Nat Hentoff
essay defending an independent judiciary that appears in the Washington Times (yes, we know) there was this sentence:
As a schoolboy, I was much taken with what William Pitt said of the right to privacy so long ago in the British House of Commons: "The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through; the storm may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement."
posted by Quiddity at 6/08/2005 08:32:00 AM
Ah, the days when the masses cared about the class war...
Those were the good old days...
How ironic that the police state powers aggregated by this president permits the FBI and other national intelligence and police agencies to enter into the private homes of American citizens on the scarcest of evidence (if any at all) and go through their belongings to search for probable cause for a proper warrant, so long as they do it while they won't notice.
