Monday, July 17, 2006
Thesis in error
Editorial: Berkeley protesters don't really matter anymore, so the feds shouldn't be watching them anymore. Yet strangely, the conclusion is:
But this is now. And in an era when protests with the most impetus on the Berkeley campus consist of naked kids with signs, the idea that student protesters would gain momentum with a violent agenda is severely lacking in perspective. That the government has collected this information and recorded these people as a "threat" reveals the danger to political discourse and those civil liberties afforded to every American by the Constitution. I would think the more appropriate conclusion would be that this is a danger to the federal budget, since they're wasting our money. As the editorial stands, not only should the feds not deem harmless folks "threats," they shouldn't even find out if they're harmless first.
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