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Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record
longhairedgnome writes "The curiosity in President-elect Barack Obama's phone records came with a high price tag for Verizon Wireless employees. According to CNN, the workers who snooped on Obama's phone records have been fired.
'This was some employees' idle curiosity,' a company source told CNN and added 'we now consider this matter closed.'
Justice served? What about legal possibilities?" Can we expect anyone who followed a warrantless wiretap from the Bush administration to also be fired then? I mean, they violated our privacy as well.
I expect to see executive NDA-pardon's (i.e. don't tell, don't serve time) flying out the door in Bush's last few days, to the tune of "everyone involved" in his shenanigans.
its fair play, to reveal his hypocrisy
if you wiretap someone who respects your privacy, as a matter of public policy, no, you're the asshole, you deserve to be fired
it's a matter of who abridges whose rights first
if you break someone's rights, your rights are broken in return, as a matter of justice, fair play, and to make an example of you
its not possible, on a number of levels and for a number of reasons, both philosophicla and practical, to respect the rights of someone who does not respect your rights in return
freedom and basic rights are a natural right in sofar as your responsibility to respect the freedom and rights of others are respected in return
there is no freedom you have in this world that does not also carry with it a responsibility. if you don't live up to that complementary responsibility, consider it open season on your freedoms. and its your fault
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Why do you hate America?
A minority, like you will never understand, no matter how many reports you read, no matter how many papers you read. To you, its all unexplainable behaviour. Stay in the dark if you wish. You will only have yourself to blame.
But then there's others (most likely exactly like you also), who don't want people to see HPDs and NPDs are driven by fear. Because they are the HPDs and NPDs. Another major thing they fear is everyone knowing their fears and seeing how they behave. If everyone understood the way HPDs and NPDs behave, (and treat others), then the HPDs and NPDs would be weakened. There lying, cheating, manipulative ways would be seen for what it is. All simply ways to get them what they want. Attention and power over others and all justified by their fears. Well, good news, knowledge spreads and knowledge grows over time. You won't be able to silence it all, no matter how much you wish to suppress people hearing the truth.
But then you already know all this don't you.