I just finished reading a New York Times editorial “Is the Supreme Court About to Kill Off the Exclusionary Rule?” that ended with this line:
“Nothing can destroy a government more quickly,” the [Federal Supreme Court noted in Mapp v. Ohio], “than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.”
I also just finished reading Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother (which you can download free under Creative Commons).
The parallels between the Times’ column and Doctorow’s forward are scary. Thanks for writing about this.