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House OKs Life Sentences For Hackers

Posted by chrisd on from the but-still-okay-to-rip-off-the-stock-market dept.

ByteHog writes "The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Monday to create a new punishment of life imprisonment for malicious computer hackers. The article on MSNBC also mentions that police can conduct internet or telephone eavesdropping without first obtaining a court order. Says a Rep from Texas: 'A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.'" Other articles can be found here and the text of the bill is available.

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  1. Re:Its not as harsh as it sounds. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hey, no reading the article..respond irrationally to the freaking subject.

  2. Re:No one expects the... by TheConfusedOne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    *salutes* *tips hat*

    You're right, I didn't expect that. Well done.

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  3. Re:Okay, this is pretty much it. by operagost · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Interesting? How many bleeding-heart moderators do we have around here anyway? You actually think Americans call anyone who has a differing opinion a terrorist? The difference is that a terrorist uses violent means to force his will upon others, especially other races/nationalities in which he has no business interfering.

    And all you pro-Palestinians are making me sick with your foolish assumptions and brain-damaged rhetoric. How are Arabs more justified to dwell in those lands than the Jewish people who have been there for millennia? Israel holds that land by might (the six-day war) and right (by U.N. mandate). The only justification the "Palestinians" (Arabs) have to that land is based on the genocidal fury of a Roman emperor, who renamed it Palestine in an attempt to wipe Israel from the world and the map.

    All people are free to settle in Israel, yet the Arabs wish to possess the whole land. Doesn't anyone remember what happened in 1967? They HAD the entire west bank and Gaza strip, but they wanted to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. Are those the kind of people you want to be associated with?

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  4. Re:Its not as harsh as it sounds. by jamie · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "these laws discriminate against white people"

    Things aren't true just because you say them. Try doing research instead of believing whatever sounds good.

    The FBI Uniform Crime Report documents that hate crimes are committed against almost every demographic slice of America you can think of. Hate-crime laws apply to attacks on white people just as on black people. I challenge you to find me a single law anywhere in the United States, enacted or proposed, that says that only black people shall be protected by hate-crime laws.

    If you need an example instead of statistics, look to Ronald Taylor, a racist black man who shot two white people. He was arraigned not only for their murders but for "ethnic intimidation," Pennsylvania's equivalent of "hate crime."

    If you want the statistics: Hate Crimes, 1995 (see table 2)