J Edgar Hoover spent his career building and runningAmerica'srepressive secret police.

I love this quote from Justice Brandeis: "The greatest dangers to liberty lie ininsidious encroachments by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." Butthey are generally aided by people motivated simply by unscrupulous ambition —people eager to create and use terrorism scares, antisemitism scares, or whatever itmay be, in order to gain power

This is why I condemn the digital systems that provide all the infrastructure forChinese-style total surveillance. All the more-or-less free countries today arethreatened by this. You can fight back by insisting on buying only withcash, and by not carrying a portable phone.