If Europeans have been outspoken over Google's program of surveillance-in-the-name-of-convenience, they have been less vocal when it comes to the full-body backscatter X-ray and millimeter-wave body scanners that began to appear in airports across Europe at the same time they did in America.
"There is not going to be an independent entity that programs in the name of the Guggenheim," Thomas Krens, the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York, said of the Abu Dhabi branch.
At the very least, however, President Obama and the Senate must resist pressure to gut renewable energy programs in the name of reducing the deficit — an urge expressed most clearly in Representative Paul D. Ryan's budget plan, which proposes a sizable and profoundly shortsighted cut in financing for energy research and development.
But if the government would violate our civil liberties in the absence of a major national security threat with the DEA program, how could they abuse the NSA programs in the name of national defense?
There are federally subsidized loans, grants, scholarships and other forms of assistance available to those who know where to look, but actors in America's ultraconservative government are chipping away at these programs in the name of budget reconciliation.
It was an electronic decade of high-tech doodads that made our lives more programmed in the name of convenience.
The idea that there has ever been a successful purely voluntary public assistance program is a conservative myth invented to justify dismantling anti-poverty programs in the name of a utopian fantasy.
Finally, a huge problem got nary a mention at the forum: the budgets proposed by most of these politicians, including Ryan, will decimate low-income programs in the name of enriching the wealthy.
In a classic case of competing public interests, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office For Civil Rights (OCR) has, we believe, compromised outreach to improve medication adherence programs in the name of patient privacy, when these programs never really compromise patient privacy in the first place.
