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Canadian Minister Lies On Net Surveillance Claims

An anonymous reader writes "As we discussed last month, the Canadian government has introduced Internet surveillance legislation that requires ISPs to disclose customer information without a warrant. Peter Van Loan, the Minister in charge, claims that a Vancouver kidnapping earlier this year shows the need for these powers. Michael Geist did some digging and revealed this as a lie — the Vancouver police acknowledge that the case did not involve an ISP request and the suspect is now in custody."

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  1. Lessons from the Bush Administration. by conureman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who got it from the Hitler Administration.

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    The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
    1. Re:Lessons from the Bush Administration. by Foobar+of+Borg · · Score: 0, Troll

      Troll??? More like truth. For the right-wing Bush-lover who modded him troll, try to look up the connection between the Bush family and the Hitler regime during WWII. In other news, apparently the Soviets didn't really find Hitler's body at his bunker.

  2. More than one Reichstag fire, USDA does this alot by NRAdude · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just look at all the crap family farms go through, and there hasn't been any devastating incident connected to Mad Cow, Bird Flue, Swine Flue, or pox yet the USDA paves the way for all those Biotech and Pharmaceutical companies to make an a$$load of money off compulsory innoculation that infects people no different than if they just contracted the disease out in the wild. The compounds in every vaccine has done more to sterile reproductive functions of Americans, cause auto-immune disorders that destroy nerve tissue from body to brain, cause food allergies, and outright destroy the Immune System (allowing worse diseases than the one's allegedly supposed to prevent) no different than how another government-created disease AIDS has destroyed Africa.

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    without prejudice
  3. Re:SURE He THOUGHT She Was 13 ... by aqk · · Score: -1, Troll

    Migod! You must really hold up the checkout lines at the local supermarket, or when you're buying a fatburger at McDough's.
    But hey! It gives you extra time to ogle their boobs while they search for their ID...
    Smart move, pudding-puller!

    But do you do this also at your local Hooters? Com'n now- 'fess up! We have seen you there, "big boy" !
    Thank goodness you don't "sleep" with them; neither do I. We have something better to do.

  4. Re:STOP THE PRESSES! by MartinSchou · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not sure Glenn Beck would agree. Nor would the frog he tosses into the boiling water.