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Mike..
My take is that, more and more, we are "guilty until proven innocent". Look how the press pillories people on alleged misdeeds. Call it paranoia if you like, but it is possible for someone to plant a false story about someone else, create a firestorm, and when it is found to be untrue, the retraction is on page 5 or 6. The damage is done.
This insidious part is all this can be done without the knowledge of the individual. Assume you are preparing a paper for a course on terrorism. You visit some terrorism related sites, you borrow some library books on anarchy/terrorism and guess whose $hit list you are on? Imagine Director Hoover or Sen. McCarthy with all the electronic goodies we have today...
We are edging closer and closer to a police state, and the sad thing is that some folks welcome that concept.
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Bob S. former owner of a 1984 silver 944
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