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2004-03-30 Europe

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Posted by Bulldog 2004-03-30 6:36:49 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gee, maybe they should WRITE INTO THE CONSTITUTION that the cops get only 4 coffee breaks per watch, just to be sure, y'know?...

Posted by mojo 2004-03-30 10:50:54 AM|| 2004-03-30 10:50:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I can't get this news story to show -- anyone else having the same problem or is it just my computer acting up?

mojo> I don't think that this has anything at all to do with the Constitution.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-03-30 11:24:59 AM|| 2004-03-30 11:24:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Aris, it's not just you. Seems Ananova's decided to go crap recently, keeping no stories in archive and having just the ten-or-whatever most recent stories online. I'm an Orange customer, and I haven't figured out whether or not I personally can get a better service from them. I guess people will just stop using their services if it stays as bad as this...

Posted by Bulldog 2004-03-30 1:54:39 PM|| 2004-03-30 1:54:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't let the privacy lobby win this one. This lobby, which is extensive in the U.S., doesn't believe in privacy, a reasonable right to protection from unwanted intrusion. What they want is invisibility: that there should be NO government capability to monitor suspicious behavior. This lobby, led by the ACLU in the US and many so-called privacy rights groups have already cost us 3,000 lives thanks to their lobbying for the 1995 law that forbid the FBI and CIA from sharing info. The are the biggest opponents of the PATRIOT Act, which they apparently believe has destroyed civil liberties (of course they can't show any instances where it's done any such thing...)

You can always tell someone in this lobby. They're always seeing "potential" violations of "privacy," no matter how infinestimal the risk or absurd the possibility. The government is always this far from being a "Nazi" regime with unlimited power.

Beware of these types. They cloak themselves in what sound like high moral values, but what they really want is complete anonymity for everyone. Complete anonymity to do whatever the hell they want, no matter what the cost to the rest of us...

Posted by RMcLeod 2004-03-30 7:50:50 PM|| 2004-03-30 7:50:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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