I highly recommend this thoughtful blog post by Andrew Sullivan (I've been citing him quite a bit recently!) about telecom immunity. I tend to agree with him. Then again, I've never been much given to paranoia. My feeling is that, well, it's not like we don't know when the Bush Administration has abused its powers. They're not too good at keeping stuff like that under wraps. If they go too far overboard and start locking people up for jaywalking they'll be toast. I don't think they will, though.
I don't trust the Bushies, but I do think I understand them, and I trust them to act in accordance with their established motives. I do think they really believe what they're doing is helping the country. I don't really agree, but there's no evidence they just want to start locking people up, or clamping down on opposition leadership, or whatever. I don't speak out much in favor of Bush, but let's be fair: he's not Joseph Stalin. I just don't see the data points to show why I should be terrified about this.
I don't think it's wrong to be upset by the outcome of this whole thing, but I'm not terribly worried. It is Bush Derangement Syndrome of a sort to just be worried about unjustified, nameless fears, but just because that asshole has done lots of bad things doesn't mean that he'll necessarily want to do every bad thing.
