United Arab Emirates to block Blackberry

U.A.E. is concerned about the excessive privacy that Blackberry affords its users and is asking to have access to communications made on Blackberry units in an effort to root out terrorists.

This is awfully similar to some of the provisions of the Patriot Act which I personally have had serious reservations (to put it mildly) about since it's inception.

The funny thing is that the main proponents of the Patriot Act were Republicans and the main proponents of the current U.A.E. ban are Arabs.

I'm glad to see we have finally found something that Republicans can agree with Arabs on.