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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (18114)	12/21/2002 2:49:02 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

It's not clear why we think that elected officials have any brains, AZ law in point. On the second post. The internet allows an interesting legal issue. Shifting to a less emotional issue. Internet casinos. Where exactly does the gambling take place?....at the server in the Bahamas, or the client machine in Los Angeles, or the routers along the way? We wouldn't normally think about the routers but there have been people that make that argument for banned pornography and take their case to the state court that has the router where it's banned. Then we have the "Patriot Act" [I know it's Patriotic because it has Patriot in the title <s>] which allows the government to do a little more peering in our lives to detect these infractions. jttmab

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (18114)	12/21/2002 10:55:58 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Here's a good one for the files..... By Robert E. Pierre Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 21, 2002; Page A03 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. Satan's Web Page was not for the faint of heart. It lauded drug use and encouraged viewers to wreak as much havoc as possible. Rape people. Join the Ku Klux Klan. It included lists of people the creators thought were "cool" and another of "people I wish were dead." There were disclaimers on the site, saying it was just for fun. It also admonished folks not to go out killing people and place the blame on the site's creators. But that was of little comfort to administrators of Kettering High School two summers ago when they learned that two students were behind the site, and that some classmates had made the "people I wish were dead" list. The two sophomores were immediately suspended, and expulsion was considered. The student who was the primary creator of the site agreed to the four-month suspension and returned last January to a different high school in the Waterford School District to complete his junior year. But the parents of Joshua Mahaffey, who helped with the site, took a different course. They agreed to let the police question their son without an attorney present and put Joshua through three days of psychiatric evaluation. When police declined to press charges and a doctor cleared Joshua to go back to school, the family thought things would return to normal. But school officials, still worried about a security threat, didn't agree and said Joshua must serve a four-month suspension. So the family sued on the basis that the site's content -- no matter how repugnant -- was protected by the U.S. Constitution....... washingtonpost.com How many stupid people are in that story? <LOL> jttmab