this is where we get into dwight dd eisenhower's admonition that we need to fear the military-industrial complex. i think the extension of those we need to fear the homeland security industrial complex. we become too much of a war country and that anything goes in the interest of that the big difference between washington opening mail and lincoln suspending habeas corpus is that the technology now is capable of complete surveillance of the entire population. i think the founding people would argue that that is a bad thing for her first amendment civil liberties. while certainly there is a certain amount of importance to being able to do surveillance especially based on probable cause i think the system as it currently stands is set up such that if we get someone who is not well intended that they are going to have the ability to create a security state and authoritarian security state that is beyond human history at this stage. that is the biggest problem. it is not the well-intentioned people. the structure now is set up as eminently well for being able to have virtually universal surve