Liberty

I came across the article via the FCOs website.
http://www.newstatesman.com/law-and-reform/2009/03/police-state-rights-freedom

It is about how we are not entering a police state and modern liberty is not under threat. It is interesting and I agree with most of it. Primarily that there is no 'golden age' of liberty to which we can roll the state back to. Often putting institutional powers on the statute serves as a protection of society, giving a reference of norms and allocation and proprietary over powers. However I do think modern technology has the capacity to completely infiltrate our lives and provide surveillance for all manner of groups who wish to control, cajole, or pressure the public to act, behave, buy and ultimately think in a certain way. We need statute law and protection over the next generation where the battle for privacy will be fought. Namely email, Internet connections, text messaging and phone calls. We can not only define between citizen and criminal, we must define between citizen and suspect.