I think I got to this interview with Natalie Jeremijenko from Slashdot.org. Who knows, but it was good and has some quotable quotes and is worth reading. Here are the quotes:

Talking about protests:

I wouldn't take my kids to these marches. They're not safe. That's only happened in the last couple of years, under the Bush administration. That's a real tragedy-this militarization of civil society, of our political processes.

An anti-terror line that she helped setup:

A lot of what's on the anti-terrorism database is how this excuse of terrorism is being used people to tear at the very fundamental social fabric of trust, and report "suspicious acts," but not be accountable.

This use of power is a pervasive systemic issue-it's about requiring each one of us to be not trusting, not to live in an open society, to be suspicious.