Posted by pooter on 10/25/05 23:58

anthonyberet [nospam@me.invalid] said
> 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 ;-)
>

Whoops.

I was actually referring to the person I replied to earlier in the
thread and for some reason, for a moment, I thought that they had
started the thread but I now realise that was simply because I had
failed to engage my brain.

No offence intended and I get the impression that none was taken. :-)

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