Superiority by Silence

Hirsi Ali has a new book out. Regarding the Dutch security services failure to protect her:

'There is ethnic profiling. But unlike in the United States, we don't even debate it. That's bad,' she says. 'In the Netherlands and in the rest of Europe we pretend that we are morally superior to the United States, that we are not doing any form of ethnic profiling. But we are.'

The same might be said for wiretaps. In fact according to this report, on most metrics, EU communications privacy policies offer less protection to citizens. Eventually the only way Europeans will be able to guard their privacy will be to truely remain silent.