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FBI Adds to Wiretap Wish List
WorkEmail writes "A far-reaching proposal from the FBI, made public Friday, would require all broadband Internet providers, including cable modem and DSL companies, to rewire their networks to support easy wiretapping by police. The FBI's request to the Federal Communications Commission aims to give police ready access to any form of Internet-based communications. If approved as drafted, the proposal could dramatically expand the scope of the agency's wiretap powers, raise costs for cable broadband companies and complicate Internet product development."
I think our Congressmen, Representatives and top-level government administrators have forgotten that they are servants of the people! They should be honored to have such a job! What I wouldn't sacrifice to have a powerful voice in the legislature of this country, or to head a committee on a topic of national importance. I would sacrifice everything to get there...except my integrity.
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If this goes through the whole idea of privacy will be shot, Bush might as well just change his title to "Big Brother."
I assume people would have to vote on it? And so I don't see this happening, though the average person would probably assume this would stop spam and crackers...
I don't have time to comment my code, the program is late already.
Frankly the people in power in this country are out of their fucking minds.
NO WAY. Whatever is left of privacy in this country is going to finished off quickly if our government has its way with us tax payers.
The kings that run this country, do as they please, when they want. Frankly its not for your safety. It's for their safety. The kings who run this country live in very nice neighborhoods, drive nice cars, have full health coverage and generally breed wealthy successfull children. They're worrying about their security, not YOUR security.
They dont give a shit about the average person in the street with no health care and no living wages.
They care about THEIR lives. They're worried that terrorists will destroy their rich neighborhoods. Btw that is what the WTC is afterall... Its a building that generally employed very wealthy folks.
If they cared about the average citizen... they wouldnt look at us all like criminals. They would pass national health care and make sure each citizen can atleast afford food and shelter each month from the wages they make.
The kings who run this country extend outside the senate and house... and of course the whitehouse. They are the corperations of the country who continously follow this exporting jobs trend while maintaining the same priced goods.
The bottom line is, you cant compete with slave labor. In this country we expect a standard of living. Well the rich kings of this country only care about their standard of living.
Will the president have one of these backdoor'd peices of hardware on his texas ranch?
Will Senate and House members have backdoors to all of their internet connections at home and or wireless connections?
Surely they wont because its a security risk.
SORRY.. BUT FUCK YOU, AND FUCK YOU JOE PUBLIC for allowing this "GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT" mentality to continue.
Our news media labels Micheal Jackson as a Pedaphile before any evidence has been presented or heard by a jury. Martha Stewart gets ass raped in the media 5 months before her trial goes to jury... NO SHIT SHES FOUND GUILTY... The media had her guilty from DAY FUCKING 1
Even the Lacey Peterson case... GUILTY in the media before trial.
Martha has been found guilty but who knows how much that has been tainted.
EVERYONE OF THEM IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW.
This country is so fucking out of control. The Media is out of control. There is no respect for individual rights.
You are guilty the moment someone accuses you of something. BY WHAT FUCKING LAW I DONT KNOW.. but last i heard it was "INOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY"
People are overstepping their bounds day by day in various forms in this country with no reguard for civil rights.
I find it appauling that slavery was outlawed and yet we allow 400 of the nations richest corperations to hire slave labor in other countries and still charge us the same fucking price.
No jobs, No rights, NO GEORGE BUSH.
And the democrats are bunch of fucking tools also... but atleast they're not AS crazy.
I voted for Ralph last time around.. and well if he gets on the ballot i may do it again.
SOMEONE GO GOOGLE THE BILL OF FUCKING RIGHTS because i think we're forgetting something.
Congress is the only entity that has the power to reign these people in, and I don't see a lot of effort being expended there on our behalf.
Congress and the courts. Unfortunately for us all the courts are being packed with right-wing zealots by the current Bush administration. The heavy handed Republican party, having gained the Whitehouse and a majority in Congress, is now on a crusade to change the very nature of our society from one that values individuality and personal freedom to one that values totalitarian security. The Bush administration and the Republican majority in Congress have used the tragedy of 9/11 to spread fear among Americans, and are using that fear to gain control of all three branches of government - legislative, executive and judicial. If we don't stop allowing the right-wing factions in this country to consolidate their power by taking away our freedoms one by one we won't have a country worth saving.
If you don't like what Congress and the Cheney/Ashcroft/Rumsfeld administration is doing then place your vote for people who see that protecting the Constitution and individual liberty is what Patriotism is really all about - not protecting Halliburton and the money-making abilities of the fat cats.
whenever your tax money goes to Welfare Queens and members of racial groups whom you'd never let anywhere near your daughter, think of it as Riot Insurance. Without social programs, the masses eventually run riot. Even the Romans understood this.
The flag just makes more sense than the constitution. - Judas Gutenberg
It is a war and there is another side -- Al Quada and the Taliban that supported them. I don't agree with the whole "War on Terror" concept because I do agree with your statement of "You can't declare war on an idea". We can however declare war on Al Quada and the Taliban that sponsored and carried out the 9/11 attacks. We can declare victory after we crush them.
When I said torture I was refering to sleep deprivation. Sure, there are worse things you could do to someone, but how long have they been there now, a year or more?
Oh my gosh a whole year or two! The people they killed on 9/11 will never be free again. They are getting off lightly compared to the pain and injustice they inflicted.
Painting terrorists as "evildoers" implies that they live just to perpetrate evil acts. Therefore, since America is good, they attack America simply for that reason. When you think like that you never stop to realize that these are real people with real concerns.
And if they want those concerns addressed they should talk to us about them. I don't care how legitimate their cause may be (for the record I never thought it was to begin with -- but that's another discussion) -- the minute they killed 3,000 of my fellow American citizens they became my enemy. In time they will be utterly crushed and defeated by my countrymen and our allies.
On 9/11 2001 ~3000 Americans died. On any given day ~30,000 children starve to death. If 1% of the attention given to the Americans who died on 9/11 was given to improving infrastructure worldwide we'd be living in a much better world.
We'll be living in a much better world when OBL and Mullah Omar are seen hanging from lightposts in downtown Kabul.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.