How convenient: MotherJones.com has an interview with John Perry Barlow which summarizes all the stuff I’ve been writing about. It’s not that long, really.

TIA: “And the important thing to think about there is that they’re no longer just looking for terrorist activity, they’re looking for any kind of criminality at all — which includes what I consider to be cultural crimes, like say marijuana smoking.”

Other freedoms lost: “This is an administration that has recently reserved to itself the right to kill American citizens anywhere on the planet for the mere suspicion of membership in Al Qaeda. That’s really quite and awe-inspiring breakthrough.”

Update May 2017: The original link is no longer valid, so use http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/02/cognitive-dissident