“Where I live, car alarms are like mountain climbers. Late in the night, while we struggle to rest, or make love, or dream… they go off. Not because they should, or because there is a reason. They go off because they can.

And you know, that’s how surveillance and government intervention in our personal lives should be. Not because there’s a reason: because it’s possible. That’s the best reason there could be.

I mean, hell, if a fucking -automobile- can forcefully involve itself in my sleep or coitus at 3 am., by what possible right or reason shall we exclude the United States Government?”

— an anonymous informant