Return to previous location              Back to Ethics Table of Contents                  Next Item -->

John Vasconcellos to David Boulton and Phil Ryan et al re Ethics  - Ethics 9
 John is in ALL CAPS - David in normal then blue


Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 12:23 PM

Subject: Re: DAVID BOULTON'S RESPONSE TO airport security PROPOSAL


ALOHA DAVID - CATCHING UP SOME MORE - -

In a message YOU WROTE - :

Phil Ryan's letter begins with wanting to correct the notion "that the
technical aspects of intelligence data sharing has existed in a meaningful
and timely way".  I didn't mean to imply that the systems in place today
have the technical capabilities to do what we need.  Rather that the problem
isn't a lack of technological capability in general. If our government
wanted to have and pay for such a system it could have had one some time ago.
FAIR ENOUGH!

The reason we don't have such a system isn't that we haven't had the
technological means. Rather, we haven't had the social-economic-political
will.  We haven't had it before 9-11 because our perceived need for such a
system didn't rise above the social and economic objections to implementing
one. Since 9-11 the perceived need has grown to overpower the economic
considerations and so the conversation turns to privacy and the related
social issues involved.
I FEAR WE'RE BEING SO DELUGED BY FRIGHT MESSAGES, PARANOIA, WE'RE ON THE
VERGE OF BLITHELY SURRENDERING ALL OUR HUMAN CIVIL RIGHTS!
 
WHAT A TRAGEDY!
WHAT A TRULY FRIGHTENING TIME IN OUR LIVES, IN OUR WORLD -
- THE MOST SUCH IN MY ENTIRE LIFE TO DATE

JOHN

YES,  I FEEL THAT FEAR.  AND, I ALSO FEEL THAT WE ARE ON THE VERGE  OF REDEFINING WHAT WE MEAN BY OUR 'HUMAN CIVIL RIGHTS'.   THIS ERA WILL PASS AND WE WILL BE THE CLEARER, CLEANER AND STRONGER FOR IT.  THE TRAGEDY IS THE MANGLING OF INNOCENT LIVES BY THE INSANITIES OF OUR SLOW-TO-LEARN NATIONAL MIND. 
 

 

Return to previous location             Back to Ethics Table of Contents                   Next Item -->

 





 for all children

© 2007 COPYRIGHT All Rights Reserved, Except:

Permission to use, copy, and distribute these materials for not-for-profit educational purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted, provided that "Implicity" - www.implicity.org"  (with a functioning hyperlink when online) be cited as the source and appear in all excerpts, copies, and distributions.  Thank you.