Mark Rasch, 2004-10-04
A New York judge did the right thing last week when he threw out a USA-PATRIOT Act provision that forced ISPs to secretly cooperate with the FBI, and gave them no obvious avenue for appeal.
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Strike One!
2004-10-05
Anonymous
Anonymous
Doesn't the little provision struck down sort of pre-date the Patriot Act by like a decade or so? Wasn't it just amended slightly here? Isn't it overstating things a little bit to say a provision of the Patriot Act was struck down when the Patriot Act did not originate the provision?...
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Strike One of 294 Million Misses
2004-10-05
Aenox (1 replies)
Aenox (1 replies)
Why isn't each Government employee assigned a group of innocents to monitor 24/7? We could be embedded with a chip of some sorts and have cameras around our homes and outside. Then, if any of us were to break the law, they would almost certainly be caught and could be delt with accordingly.
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Strike One of 294 Million Misses
2004-10-08
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
Quote: "Why isn't each Government employee assigned a group of innocents to monitor 24/7? We could be embedded with a chip of some sorts and have cameras around our homes and outside... Companies could also take part in the additional monitoring..."
That seems to be the way things are headed, Aen...
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Strike One!
2004-10-07
JP (1 replies)
JP (1 replies)
I don't see why letting the FBI have more access to ISP and citizens is a problem. If you don't have anything to hide what are you worried about? Let's just keep on warning everyone when the FBI is coming so they can destroy any evidence before the FBI shows up....
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Strike One!
2004-10-14
Anonymous
Anonymous
Sometimes what people have to hide is not that they have done anything wrong, but that they are different than the people presently in power. Remember, the man making up the rules about who is and who is not arrested has some very definate ideas on morality that are not shared by the majority of the...
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Strike One!
2004-10-13
Anonymous
Anonymous
"They came for the communists, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a communist;
They came for the socialists, and I did not speak up because I was not a socialist;
They came for the union leaders, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a union leader;
They came for the Jews, and I didn't s...
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They came for the socialists, and I did not speak up because I was not a socialist;
They came for the union leaders, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a union leader;
They came for the Jews, and I didn't s...
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