How true. Ashcroft played it beautiful. "Give me what I want or the next big terrorist attack is your fault." But was the first big attack his/Bush's fault? Congress caved. Intimidation won the day.
-Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:45 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Two points and then back to work > > > That is scary, I agree. One also has to wonder how much of this is > *opportunism* on the part of the authorities responsible for introducing > this. Is this _really_ going to help stop terrorism, or more likely, a way > for the government to control a medium it considers threatening? > > will > > -----Original Message----- > From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 06 December 2001 15:36 > To: CF-Community > Subject: Two points and then back to work > > > First off, I wanted to say that I find it rather interesting. We're all > debating the politics of the attacks, agreements with Canada (of which a > search on CNN returns absolutely 0 results aside from a report on the 24th > of Sept. saying that no changes to Canada's immigration policies would > happen), and so forth, but no one has brought up Carnivore. To start > another baseless debate, I heard rumor that shortly after all this started > the FBI or Justice Department had started trying to work it into > some major > ISP's and campus networks. > > Then a story emerged today on Yahoo news: > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20011205/tc/warning_we_know_what_y ou_re_typi ng_and_so_does_the_fbi__1.html (watch for the wrap on the URL) The FBI is talking about building an invisible keystroke logger with the intent of targeting computers that might be used by terrorists. now *that* scares me. Someone please call Mr. Orwell and tell him to put Big Brother back in the cage please. Hatton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
