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July 21, 2008

If you鈥檙e like the 老澳门开奖结果 you believe in privacy, the Fourth Amendment and the fact that Congress just did an unforgivable thing to both by passing the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. And, if you are like me and a few others I know, then you spent last week anticipating then reveling in the release of . If you鈥檙e with me on all of those counts, then you probably found a particular scene in the latest Batman to be as timely as I did.

Spoiler alert!

Towards the end of the film, the Caped Crusader asks one of his trusted confidants to conduct broad and invasive surveillance on the citizens of Gotham by essentially turning every cell phone into a microphone to locate a certain and marvelously played villain. That confidant (played by who is pretty much amazing in all he is and does) initially has the correct reaction saying, 鈥淚t鈥檚 not my job to spy on 30 million people.鈥 Wow. Imagine if that happened in real life鈥

Well, unfortunately, like the telecoms before him, Mr. Freeman鈥檚 character reluctantly goes along with the plan saying he鈥檒l resign and terminate the program after 鈥渢his one time.鈥 <Sigh>

At least he didn鈥檛 ask for immunity.

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