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To: thames_sider who wrote (3644)	11/15/2002 7:45:59 AM
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And more on the privacy issue. theinquirer.net With the pretext of protecting citizens against terrorism, US legislators are happily throwing personal freedoms out the window. A 16-page Cyber Security Enhancement Act (CSEA) slipped into into the Homeland Security bill at the last moment to allow police to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping willy-nilly with no requirement to ask a court's permission first. Strange, I'm not the only one to pick up Orwellian overtones... theinquirer.net SOMETIMES I THINK they just hate us. By "them" I mean anyone governmental and by "us" I mean US - all of us. You could sort of forgive the US the PATRIOT Act. Well, not really forgive it, but understand it as a natural, if ill-thought-out response to a sudden, horrible shock. The people you couldn't forgive, really, were the law enforcement officials who'd wanted those rights-abrogating policies all along and seized the legislative opportunity while people were still grieving ... It could be fun for Americans, couldn't it?, to live in a country that presumes guilt instead of innocence? It could be ours - because I am American - in 30 days. Kind of gives a new meaning to Santa Claus's knowing whether we've been bad or good, doesn't it? Especially when Santa is the former Admiral John Poindexter, who was the Reagan National Security Adviser to Reagan that was heavily involved in the Iran-Contra dealings and is the director of the new Information Awareness Office. Just remember, you love Big Brother. You think it right that he and his minions have the right to observe everything you do, say and surf... it's for your own protection, after all. And governments would never abuse power, would they. Why, if they decide it's excessive, I'm sure they'll give it right back to you. LOL.