Reply #23: Not when it is being done in this manner. [View All]

[madfloridian]

SNIP..."I'm from Vermont and believe me, government is kept at a respectful but very conscious distance," Dean said. "Reality demands that we understand, first, that the rise of empowered individuals whose single mission is to destroy Americans means that we have to fight them at an INDIVIDUAL level and second-that we have already ceded our private information to faceless credit card companies and direct marketers who then sell it for a profit. Now-I believe that our nation has the technological capacity to protect both our privacy and our way of life."(They already have it, we have to control it.)

He touted, "We will not, and should not, tolerate a call to erode privacy even further-far from it. Americans can only be assured that their personal identity and information are safe and protected when they are able to gain more control over this information and its use."