believe that none of us will be able to exercise consent in the RFID world of the future. hackers and "criminals" will always find new ways to make technology work against those who want to employ it in a particular way.

but your point about consent is valid. republicans know this, it's at the heart of the game they play. they enjoy taking it away from people, that's abundantly clear at this point.

i find the whole waterboarding discussion interesting. it achieves a number of worthy goals for the republican authoritarians. it distracts from the much more important question of how many people are being tortured, where, by whom, for how long, and to what end. waterboarding is only one of 000s of evil techniques "we" are using on people in countries around the globe. this is a case of classic overton window shifting, and it's working well. if people understood the extent and nature of how our Torture Cadre functions to "protect" us in the GWOT, they'd understand why so many "arabs on the street" believe us to be the Great Satan.

we've been trying really hard to earn that label, these last few years.