Now is the time to resurect this video: Truman on Spying on Americans.

[Mugsy]

I think it is time to resurect this old video that made its way across the Net during last years campaign, as it is suddenly even more poiniant than ever:

President Harry Truman talking about how we won't use the FBI to spy on Americans:

"...we are working quietly but effectively, without headlines or hysteria, against Communist subversion in this country wherever it appears, and we are doing this within the framework of the democratic liberties we cherish.

That is the way this administration is fighting communism. That is the way it is going to continue to fight communism. Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism. We are not going to transform our fine FBI into a Gestapo secret police. That is what some people would like to do. We are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. We are not going to turn the United States into a right-wing totalitarian country in order to deal with a left-wing totalitarian threat." - April 24, 1950.

I have the video here as part of my Extras page.