PhillyKev 0 #1 March 13, 2003 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=578&ncid=578&e=20&u=/nm/20030311/ts_nm/attack_libraries_dc Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,146 #2 March 13, 2003 Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover must be smiling in their graves.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
payback462 0 #3 March 13, 2003 good thing i dont read books! besides thats what tv and the internet is for Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggerrob 643 #4 March 13, 2003 The FBI are welcome to spy on my reading habits AFTER they shove the entire Encyclopedia Britannica up their a**! Hah! Hah! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #5 March 13, 2003 Quotebesides thats what tv and the internet is for Yeah...well luckily for them they have Poindexter tracking everything you do on the internet as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflyguy 0 #6 March 13, 2003 hmm. After Sep 11 I saw a billboard that read "Don't take our freedom for granted" I couldn't help thinking one way some apply that is to take away some of our freedoms in the guise of protecting it. It is a rather difficult problem to solve. No answers here. ---------------------------- bzzzz Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,108 #7 March 13, 2003 I can just hear the Limbaugh defenses now: "Sure, they arrest US citizens and hold them forever without trial or representation now, but they only do that to criminals. If you're not a criminal, you have nothing to fear." "And why are these liberal whiners complaining about the ability to get library records? We could always do that, this just makes it easier to get people who are getting books about violent protest methods, or even people who fit a terrorist profile - like people who read books about Iraq or Saudi Arabia. At least the books that say they're not evil terrorists; the ones that do are still OK." "And so computers will now read your every purchase, from alcohol to porn to consumer electronics, and store that information so it can be searched by agents. Hey, they're the good guys, remember? And if you are buying diesel fuel and fertilizer, well, good thing we caught you before you built another Oklahoma City bomb. And if you're buying some porn we find disgusting - well, it's your own fault for buying it, now, isn't it?" "WAIT A MINUTE! You're talking about requiring SUV's to get 10% better gas mileage? That goes against every American freedom our forefathers fought and died for! What are you, a nazi?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
payback462 0 #8 March 13, 2003 hmm, well then theyre going to be tracking a lot of porn and postwhoreing! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JJohnson 0 #9 March 13, 2003 FBI, CIA, NSA and such has been monitoring things for quite some time, the new laws regarding internet and such will just make it legal and easier for them to do it. I am pretty much anti-government when ti comes to these big brother things. Take mandatory seat belt laws.....Like that law was passed for our protection??? In Illinois I can ride amotorcycle without a helmet, but required to wear a seat belt....I think it is nothing more that giving a cop an excuse to pull someone over at will, under the guise of "no seatbelt".JJ "Call me Darth Balls" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
12bhi 0 #10 March 13, 2003 COMMUNISM here we come!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,146 #11 March 13, 2003 QuoteFBI, CIA, NSA and such has been monitoring things for quite some time, the new laws regarding internet and such will just make it legal and easier for them to do it. I am pretty much anti-government when ti comes to these big brother things. Take mandatory seat belt laws.....Like that law was passed for our protection??? In Illinois I can ride amotorcycle without a helmet, but required to wear a seat belt....I think it is nothing more that giving a cop an excuse to pull someone over at will, under the guise of "no seatbelt". Criminalization of the trivial is a sure sign of a police state. On May 25th it will be a felony in the USA to possess a model rocket motor with more than 2.2 ounces of propellant in it unless you have a permit from the Federal Government, and an explosives bunker to store the motor in.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
