The Electronic Frontier Foundation struck me as a somewhat conservative group in the mid-1990s, and I wasn’t entirely comfortable aligning myself with them. Now of course the Republican party, and with it the U.S. government, is in the hands of people who aren’t true conservatives at all (though they may try to wear the name). It’s increasingly clear that those who are running the U.S. government are Right-wing in the Pinochet sense, complete with arrests without evidence, detention camps, secret tribunals, and now a plan for unlimited surveillance of U.S. citizens (Total Information Awareness).

As the Republican Right have shown their true colors the gap between their beliefs and those of real conservatives has become increasingly clear. And the EFF now finds itself, in a effect, a resistance group — and, given its ideological position, a good point for coalition-building (as many an organizer has said, “If you’re comfortable in your coalition, it isn’t broad enough”). Given this, I urge everyone to take a few minutes to support the EFF’s campaign against TIA, and for U.S. citizens to start by signing the EFF’s letter Orrin Hatch (likely next Chair of the Judiciary Committee), urging public hearings on the TIA issue.

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