To get your history lessons from a former drug-addled DJ is the ultimate in stupidity. As one author noted, Americans will trust anybody but those who actually know what they are talking about- those will be treated with scorn.

I hadn’t heard of it beforte this post (I am not following current events and politics as much as I should). I looked at the web-site and I find the idea of Glenn Beck promoting civic unity and bringing Americans together ridiculous. First there is what he has been saying recently (see http://mediamatters.org/search.....0&y=0 for some good examples (certainly his talk of hunting progressives the same way Israel went after Nazis)). I mean, he called Obama an anti-white racist and now he wants us to all come together? Then, as far as the spirit of American unity since 9/11 we have plenty of evidence that a new McCarthyism took over the political right, as The Progressive has docuemented at- http://www.progressive.org/list/mccarthy?page=18 .We have Coulter writing a book that calls all liberals/leftists traitors. She said that the American Taliban (the teenager captured sjortly after 9/11) should be executed because she believes that liberals need to be physically intimidated.

During WWII the UK had a coalitiion government because they saw that in that war they needed unity. Bush could have had a few cabinet positions given to Democrats (Cllinton, in the late 1990s when we were NOT in a major and prolonged war, had a Republican for a Secretary of Defense) but he didn’t, and instead used 9/11 to push his radical agenda.

i think I’m missing ione more element of this, but I think I’ve made my point. It’s a joke for Beck to talk about unity.

Tom

Virtually any form of electronic communication is vulnerable to third parties. The same is true for any form of electronic or datagraphic record keeping. The proliferation of microelectronics means privacy behind closed doors is all but entirely compromised in situations where culturally we would expect to have a measure of privacy: bathrooms, hotels, and so on.

In the great span of time I can see culture adapting to these new realities with shifts in values: desensitization to nudity, for example, in the case of x-ray scanners. But I am also concerned about relaxation of values where basic human dignity and the integrity of self expression is at the core of the issue.

These concepts are protected Constitutionally at the same time as technological innovation makes it increasingly difficult to defend them.

I see an eventual conflict here. As much as these morons hate Obama, they are also irrationally afraid of terrorists(they are far more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by terrorists), and they LOVE people getting punished for things, especially drug possession.