Great Title

Meanwhile, there's a war going on. It's a great title for a blog post and a pretty amazing indictment of the main stream media's lack of reporting. In Europe and around the world there's been a big AP story about cracking a cell of Al Queda members plotting an attack on America that would "dwarf" 9/11. Is this news to people? It should be, I think. It certainly shouldn't be news only after it happens. The accusation in the linked blog post is that the liberal media purposefully neglected the terrorist plot to push the NSA wiretapping story - demonstrating the illegality of using listening devices on citizens. Of course, it was the listening devices that led to the capture of this Algerian cell, which would give credence to the idea that we're spying on Al Queda members for a reason - not just to invade the privacy of others.

The fact is the left fetishes privacy rights and the threat of government spying on citizens. It blinds them from seeing any possible reason for eavsdropping or any weighing of values - privacy vs. security. At the same time, it seems like Bush could have easily used the court orders to get warrents to eavsdrop.

Anyhow, I'm not losing sleep over anyone listening to my phone calls.