Well... I'll mildly note that the civil rights movement and anti-war movement weren't actually engaged in the sorts of dangers and plotting that seems to have happened recently.
I'll gladly agree, with no reservations, that there is sudden awareness of how vital the 4th amendment is, and that there can also be *reasonable* fears of bias.
(I also might be over-remembering, e.g., Martin Luther King Jr. being spied on and threatened, versus various communist infiltrations, which are reasonable to watch and be concerned about. I'm sure not *all* of the CR/AW spying was to protect The Powers That Be.)
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Date: 2018-02-13 04:48 pm (UTC)I'll gladly agree, with no reservations, that there is sudden awareness of how vital the 4th amendment is, and that there can also be *reasonable* fears of bias.
(I also might be over-remembering, e.g., Martin Luther King Jr. being spied on and threatened, versus various communist infiltrations, which are reasonable to watch and be concerned about. I'm sure not *all* of the CR/AW spying was to protect The Powers That Be.)