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To: Lane3 who wrote (8585)	1/9/2006 4:25:49 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541513

One second you are talking about warrant systems and the next you are saying blanket surveillance is fine if a warrant system isn't feasible. Cuban-style neighborhood watch committees are just a low-tech way of prescreening day to day social interactions to look for signs of dangerous activity. No different from a giant electronic dragnet. Each has its strengths and weaknesses. And both are marks of totalitarian regimes. Now I will stop communicating because it is bedtime on my side of the world. My basic answer is warrants good, no warrant systems bad. I find that very centrist and unpolarized. So do 56% of respondents in a recent poll.