No doubt SLDN leader Steve Ralls celebrated when he heard the Pentagon will dismantle its dissident monitoring TALON program, a program that included gay rights groups on its hit list.

The move does, however, have a downside, as Ralls explains:

This is, yes, a certain victory for civil liberties, and we should all celebrate this small step toward individual rights and sexual privacy. The exhibitionist in us, though, might feel a bit left out in the cold. After all, what's more exciting than the thought of all those military intelligence boys at DoD getting a kick out of your kisses?

We're missing the government's prying eyes already…

(Image courtesy Robert Richards.)