For Americans troubled by the prospect of federal agents eavesdropping on their phone conversations or combing through their Internet records, there is good news: A little-known board exists in the White House whose purpose is to ensure that privacy and civil liberties are protected in the fight against terrorism.
Someday, it might actually meet.
Initially proposed by the bipartisan commission that investigated the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was created by the intelligence overhaul that President Bush signed into law in December 2004.
More than a year later, it exists only on paper.
Source. If you give the executive carte blanche, what will they take next? Hopefully we won't find out.
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But what if you give a mouse cocaine?
If you give a mouse cocaine, it will for a while be a very productive mouse, with occasional problems controlling its voice. Sometimes it may feel like superman. Eventually, however, it will be either on the giving end or receiving end of violence. After all, it can't petition the courts for redress, and neither can its dealer, given that cocaine is illegal. By this point, the mouse will be intimately involved with the extra-legal and illegal sector, and will have trouble finding gainful employment. It will be forced to abdicate from the legal world, and may turn to loan sharking smaller mice, or trafficking cocaine itself in order to meet its obligations.
It is very sad. It's like Goodfellas, except with mice.
And then, in prison on federal narcotics charges, it will be raped by a rat.
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