Spying: American way of life?

[Paul Wilders]

WASHINGTON -- Last month's revelation that President Bush wants hundreds of millions of dollars to invent innovative ways to spy on Americans was greeted not with suspicion, but shoulder-shrugging indifference.

Save for a few battle-weary civil libertarians, not many people have been fretting about how cameras now monitor all downtown areas in Washington, or the unchecked spread of face-recognition cameras that spy on travelers in airports and sports fans in arenas....

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paul

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This is how the world is going. *The amazing part is that so few are raising objections. *Perhaps, one day too soon, we will recognise in ourselves a resemblance to the citizens of the former Soviet Union, and an atmosphere of fear will prevail.