Here's what Mark Steyn had to say about the phone records. He makes some interesting points about how this is surely less obtrusive than other information we willingling supply to the government, that people whine when the dots aren't connected but whine when someone tries to find the dots to begin with, and that so many people's records are being looked over because no one has the balls to simply go over the records of, say, people of Arab or Middle Eastern descent.
I hope you have checked your rage, Slaps. Like Mark Steyn, I also yield to nobody in my antipathy to government, but I am not seeing the danger here, at least not one outweighed by the prospect of catching terrorists in the US. The phone records are annonymous and a warrant is required to act on anything they find. One can imagine, hope even, the government is looking for calls to known terrorists or their supporters from yet unknowns or missing suspects. I just don't see the danger of the government using this type of information. Perhaps you could illustrate some scenarios that justify rage.
