Posted by anthonyberet on 10/25/05 22:02

pooter wrote:
> 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"!

Speaking as the OP, I don't find it boring at all ;-)

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