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Dozens Charged in Spam Crackdown
JohnnyGTO writes "Federal and state law enforcement agencies have quietly arrested or charged dozens of people with crimes related to junk e-mail, identity theft and other online scams in recent weeks, according to several people involved in the actions."
Actual it's cruel and UNUSUAL - big difference.
but the US doesn't really care about that anyway, after all they still have the death penalty which is certainly unusual in today's world.
and if I remember correctly there's just the U.S. and one other country who will execute mentally disabled people.
He earns some contempt for going along with all the other sheep in Congress (with the sole exception of Russell Feingold) voting for it when the administration rammed it through in the wake of 9/11, sure.
Not nearly as much as Ashcroft gets for drafting the damned thing, much less pushing PATRIOT II. And, of course, Bush appointed the schmuck and pushed for the act, so on this one Kerry's less wrong, at least.
PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!
Exactly. Just like the US trying to fight the Vietnam war to a standstill was slow suicide for the vastly more powerful U.S., simply responding to terrorism on a tit-for-tat basis is not going to prevent terrorism. A hardware advantage doesn't matter much if you're sitting around waiting to have a shopping mall or bus blown up.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
People often bring this up as an argument for the death penalty.
The answer is, yes, if somebody murdered a member of my family I would want them to die. And I would be wrong in wanting that.
The distressed emotional state of bereft family members is no excuse for murder, even in return for murder.