Posted by pooter on 10/25/05 19:08

Zombie Wolf [zmbwf@gwi.net] said
> This follows the same mindset that is rapidly eroding our civil rights. they
> don't have to "buy" anything - all they have to do is convince a few
> congressmen and judges that file sharing is "evil by its very nature" ..
> fairly easy to do , since nobody is there to argue an opposing vewpoint....
> What do you expect from a country that currently has laws that allow you to
> be arrested if law enforcement "thinks you might commit a crime" ? They can
> now bug your house, do illegal searches, listen in on client - lawyer
> consultations and use that in court, etc, etc ad nauseum. the Patriot Act
> allows them to all this and much more - without ever having to obtain a
> warant or court order. They are answerable to noone. Following 9-11, what i
> call red-white-and blue blindness struck the congress and house, and they
> voted for anything and everything shoved at them by law enforcement....
> Nobody questioned it, since they didnt want to be branded "unpatriotic" by
> the Bush administration. Wake up - your rights as a defendant in court or
> anywhere else were GONE quite a while ago. In the meantime we preach
> "democracy" and "freedom" in places like Iraq, while there is none here at
> home....

Glad everyone doesn't share the view of the OP that this sort of thing
is "boring"!

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