In an article discussing the federal government’s ability to access cell phone geo-location data from telecom companies without demonstration of probable cause, John Cole at Balloon Justice offers one strategy to get GOP-ers to reverse course:
In all seriousness, if this kind of thing pisses you off and frightens you, and it should, then you should be rooting for Hillary Clinton to win in 2008. Not because I trust her with the sorts of unchecked power the right wing has demanded authorities have during Bush’s tenure, but because I know the surest way to wake up NRO and the Red State and the other alleged “conservatives” to the dangers of this sorts of behavior is to give the power to Hillary.
I’ve got to admit: the idea of Dems’ controlling the White House and Capitol Hill, armed with such power, disturbs me almost as much as the idea of a Bush/Cheney White House and a GOP Congress.
Perhaps facing the real threat of such a scenario would be enough to win some Republicans who don’t drink the neocon kool-aid over to the light side of the privacy force.
