Wednesday, February 19, 2003 ::
Unpatriotic
Anita Ramasastry has written an analysis of a draft of the new "Domestic Security Enhancement Act", aka Patriot II. Not only would this bill make a number of new scary things the law of the land, but it would also make the original Patriot Act scarier as well. If you ever wondered what would happen if a power-hungry AG with little respect for Constitutional guarantees (except for the Second Amendment) were to get his legal wish list, now you know.
Moving Servers
It's about time to move my servers from my old apartment to my new one. This will mean the site will be down for a while in the next couple of days. Don't give up hope — it will be back up ASAP.
Brzezinski's Polemic
When it comes to the question of war in Iraq, the pundits are usually divided up into the hawks who want war, and the doves who don't. But many of the voices we are hearing aren't against the war per se, but against how the Bush administration is pursuing that war. In today's Post, Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that any decision to go to war needs to fit within a sound analysis of US national security priorities, and you can almost hear his dismay and anger at Bush for avoiding that essential context. Brzezinski is no dove, which just goes to show that the appropriate division now is between the super-hawk Bushies and everyone else who wants US foreign policy to be based on real security needs.