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To: PJ Strifas who wrote (27847)	8/24/1999 6:54:00 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

It's ALL A Question of Motivation..... >>Then again, the government or I should say, the people who are placed in positions in the government have failed us in ways which still make me wonder how all this even works! In those cases, I believe its the human factor - the person elected - that disappoints us and not the actual public office.>> I'd feel a lot more comfortable if the folks proposing the system didn't have such an awful record. - Travel office firings - Open/free White House passes - no background checks. - Missing/reappearing FBI files - Missing/reappearing Rose law firm records - IRS collusion in the intial round of White Water. - Chinese money laundering in the last election - A DOJ which sits on both hands - $100,000 futures trading coup - Perjury - Stonewalling - SPIN - Rape - Federal sanction against ONE round of lying in the Jone's testimony - A close buddy who didn't report certain payments to the IRS - 45-50 individuals connected in some way mysteriously dead/missing - nuclear secrets being given away with the DOJ doing nothing Forget about what people say. Actions speak much louder. Nobody likes to go over the record. Each of us implicitly and naturally wants to trust our elected officials. It's the abuse of our collective trust which we should be worried about. Peter, if you're going to hire or trust someone I think you would agree that at least a basic background/interview/smell test is required. The background/interview/smell test for this current gang leave something to be desired. They have a lot of gall to be trying to Trojan Horse their way deep into our personal lives with this Cyberspace Electronic Security Act. If enacted people could not only find their PCs taken away, but they'd have to hire a lawyer to defend themselves against what???? Think of the terror and damage that could be created - all for what? As we've seen over the past 6+ years it's very, very hard to fight SPIN and prove motive. Uncle Sam could really stack the deck against our fundamental core freedoms through this extension of search & seizure which found it's roots in the street-based drug world. Just imagine if the people involved where somehow connected to drug rings. When there's money involved, the police CAN get bought off very easily. I don't mean to be doom and gloom, but these developments could have powerfully negative implications for the future of our country for they potentially impact our fundamental core constitutional freedoms. Many of our core constitutional freedoms have already been negatively impacted through the expansion of Federal powers in drug-related searchs. And please, this is NOT Cyber-McCarthyism. I'd equate it more to 1776. Read the Declaration of Independence. One of the greatest reads on earth. Peace. GO!!