-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Okay, here's a synopsis; He starts with the premise that after Sept. 11 'everything changed', and that safety needs now will start to trump all personal liberties. He goes on to describe before and after scenes from different parts of society: Before: We cared about medical records privacy After: Today, security 'needs' trump all privacy 'rights' Before: Americans demanded better, faster, cheaper air service After: 'No one complains, even silently, about exposing dirty underwear in a public place' (direct quote referring to hand checks of luggage at airports) Before: Face scanning technology is a frightening invasion of our privacy After: These technologies are 'comforting' today Before: NAFTA is good for the economy, and open trade leads the way to economic prosperity After: Fortifying the border with Canada is an utmost priority Before: Privatization of airport security makes economic and business sense After: Trust in central government is unquestioned and total. Federalizing airport security is a requirement. Here's his closing paragraph: - ------------------- The lasting impact of Sept. 11 is likely to be greatest on Americans in their late teens and early 20s, "the people who are still young enough to have their values being formed," Mr. Bulin suggests. For them, Sept. 11 will likely prove as important in shaping attitudes and behavior as the traumatic Kennedy assassination and the divisive Vietnam War were for an earlier generation. And it is truly impossible to predict just how that will show itself in the decades ahead. - ------------------- Hopefully he's right; but not in the way that he intended. It was a chilling article on how to roll over and reliquish liberties and rights fought and died for over hundreds of years, all in the name of safety. It was almost a treatise to crawl back into the womb of your 'mother', and leave all the nasty work to the government, who'll take care of you. It's hard to believe that the authors feelings are different from those expressed in the article, but as it was on the front page of the WSJ and not the editorial page, perhaps he was just reporting on what he was seeing in the US and not personalizing it. It's hard to live in a world with freedom, liberty, and personal responsibility. It's much easier to just relinquish control to a higher power and accept what fate comes to you. But that's not the spirit that made this country great, and it's not the attitude that will pull the US out of this jamb. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com> To: "'Peter Capelli'" <pcapelli@nsec.net> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 11:21 AM Subject: RE: How-to be a sheep article on the WSJ

For those of us who aren't signed up, can you give a summary?

Peter Trei

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Subscription required; i couldnt find it on their free opinionjournal site, where it should have been. At first I thought it was satire, but after reading it twice realized it wasn't.

http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1002146366879715800.htm

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