Two uniformed members of Homeland Security went to a Bethesda, MD library and announced to those using the internet computers that viewing internet porn was forbidden. They then challenged a patron's viewing of a website (neither link in this posting indicates that it was pornography) and asked him to step outside. A librarian intervened, they go off to the side, a police officer arrives, and the two men leave. Although the article recommends doing a Google search on terms that allow those watching us trying to connect the dots for terrorism (that apparently "Bin Laden determined to strike US" wasn't a big enough dot), I fear that it may give those in power an excuse to put away those of us still speaking out. But what should be done is to spread the word on this far and wide, and not leave it up to the press.
Leonard Pitts comments on the matter, while citing two interesting quotes:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.'' Benjamin Franklin.
''There ought to be limits to freedom.'' George W. Bush, 1999.