This Week In Tyranny
There will probably be lots of wrangling this week over the RESTORE act. Defenders of retroactive immunity are getting the word out; here’s one example from former CIA director R. James Woolsey:
Senior U.S. officials asked telecommunications companies to assist the government in intercepts involving terrorist groups such as those that had just attacked us and killed thousands of people.
If some future senior government official needs to make a call on a CEO of the sort I did, and that others did after 9/11, we and our children will be better off if the official can answer the question “Can you guarantee that my company won’t be sued if we help the country?” with “If it happens, we’ll get protective legislation approved as in 2007.”
No, we and our children will be better off if we don’t create an authoritarian executive. We and our children will also be better off if future senior government officials obey the law and future businesses make it a point to do the same. We and our children will be far better off if we don’t listen to arguments that try to frighten us into allowing anything and present us with false choices. Most of all, we and our children will be orders of magnitude better off when Woolsey and his disgraceful brand of lawlessness and fearmongering is entirely discredited. That day can’t come soon enough.
Dan
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