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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (8960)1/13/2006 8:45:42 AM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (2) of 541391
 
When I said they had better things to do than to snoop on the innocent, I mean the innocent like E and me. As for snooping on people they don't like, if they want to do that, they will do it regardless. They already have the power and nothing we can do in the way of warrant mechanisms can take it away. "Give" is not the same as "have" and "authority" is not the same as "power."

That is a silly argument.

1. Why pass a law if most people are going to do it anyway?

2. How can you be sure they are not going to target you and/or E? Both of you write a lot. Both of you use email. Both of you post a lot of messages on the internet. What is the likelihood that keywords or subject matters that you write about are different than keywords and subject matter terrorists use? How can a computer program tell that your use of the keywords have different meaning?
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