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How The Government Spies On Your Internet Use
intnsred writes "In explaining the recent PATRIOT act ACLU lawsuit, a D.C. civil rights lawyer writes, "I am sure that many of you reading this (and I, likely) have the government in our computers....Until now, we did not know much about how the government goes about this procedure. Now we do." Fascinating details of the case and how easy it is for the gov't to get warrantless access to you through your ISP. This clarifies and expands a previous /. article."
"Never has the ACLU needed your financial support more. Clearly, it is the only thing standing between us and our fascist government." My Gosh, my dictionary defines fascist as 'extreme right-wing totalitarian nationalist movement in Italy' (or similar) and totalitarian as 'one-party government requiring complete subservience to the state'. These are hardly descriptions of our America... shame to apply them , especially on Memorial Day!!! If we are in any danger of becoming a one-party government it is only because the democratic party has fallen into disarray because of it's continuing pursuit of lack of credability. And don't forget there are other smaller parties still! And the ACLU, if they did not do some good from time to time, we probably would have recognized there basic intellectual corruption ( read marxist beginnings and aims).
Because he, unlike you, has taken an interest in the news the past decade. It's common knowledge. Please go do some research into the basics before you ask the equivalent of 'and how do you know that US prison guards did things like that to Iraqi prisoners?'.
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
People are gonna wish Saddam was still in power. He was the only force keeping those millions of fanatical Muslim a-holes in check in Iraq. So Bush got his revenge (and Saddam's pistol)...and only 800 troops have had to die for it so far. Huzah!. Hey Ashcroft, if you or any of your SS are reading this...F*** YOU!
I don't know about the rest of you, but I still remember the attacks of 9/11/2001. It seems that the absence of more attacks on the U.S. soil have allowed us to return to our very comfortable lives and resume writing our theories on life and government. NEWS FLASH : WE ARE AT WAR. The Islamo-fascists are all at war with US, but it seems that over half of the country has forgotten and chose NOT to be at war with these terrorists. You want definition of a terrorist? If you need a definition, then it's painfully obvious that you have forgotten about 9/11, and that says a lot about how GOOD life is in the USA, where the country could be AT WAR, but most of the population doesn't know or care, or has the freedom to speak out and demonstrate against our actions in this war which we did not seek.
How many years did it take US to transform Japan? How many years did it take US to transform Germany post WWII? And now we as a people expect Iraq to be transformed in less than a year? People, we still have troops in Japan and Germany. Again, it is a commentary on how good life is in the US, that we expect all our conflicts be resolved in either a half hour or an hour, or else it is regarded as a 'quagmire' and 'another Vietnam'. Americans lack patience, whereas our enemies are willing to wait for their chance to strike, so our government and the rest of us have to be ever vigilant, or suffer the consequences.
So to all of you who criticise the Bush administration for their policies, by all means please enlighen us with your plans to defeat terrorism. Perhaps you want to negotiate? How about converting to Islam/Wahabbism? Close our borders? National ID cards? Repeal Patriot Act so gov't agents can't effectively investigate suspects? Then when another attack happens, you will say, "somebody should have known, why did it have to happen?" The 9/11 commission has already concluded that the attacks could have been prevented - with what we learned after the attacks have taken place. Sounds like a serious case of tuesday and wednesday-afternoon quarterbacking. We should all realize that the terrorists only have to succeed one time, and they are patient. The US gov't/people have to succeed all the time, and we are very impatient.
Just imagine if we had the press of today covering the events of WWII, D-Day would have been a disaster and unnecessary bloodbath, and the battle of the Bulge would have been reported as a defeat. So try to have a sense of historical context here folks. The history of the world has always been periods of war followed by periods of relative calm and peace, and we are at war, and I pray that this period of war will be short, so we can all go back to our very comfy lives.