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The Future of Freedom Foundation posted <\/a><\/strong>& sent out today my op-ed on how the current NSA wiretapping scandal paves the way to repeat police state atrocities of the 1960s.\u00a0 Here are a couple paragraphs from the piece:<\/p>\n

Many Americans have shrugged off the recent controversy over illegal wiretaps because they assume that the government would never be concerned with people like themselves. But the FBI continually expanded its enemies list. Nixon aide Tom Charles Huston testified to Congress about COINTELPRO\u2019s tendency \u201cto move from the kid with a bomb to the kid with a picket sign, and from the kid with the picket sign to the kid with the bumper sticker of the opposing candidate. And you just keep going down the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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