Letter: Right to life more important than privacy

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2002 | 8:53 a.m.

Apparently the information collection and analysis office (Information Awareness Office) of John Poindexter has little value, if the editorial writers are to be believed.

They seem to feel that finding these radical Islamist terrorists, who want to blow citizens up, is a lower priority than protecting my credit card information and other data.

Americas' founding documents assert that I have a right to life. The federal government is constituted, in part, to protect me from those who would blow me up.

I definitely prefer to have all of my data run through some government computer, in an attempt to find these terrorists, than get blown up on the way to the mall where I would use a credit card with the assurance of privacy.

ALAN EICHLER

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