Pete Holsberg wrote: > Tony Cooke has written on 7/10/2008 6:22 PM: >> Sam Cayze wrote: >> >>> In my eyes, A VERY VERY sad day in the history of the United States. >>> >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >>> John Messeder >>> >>> President Bush signed today a law which effectively guarantees that any >>> entity with access to our communications, writings, calendars, etc. can >>> turn over that information to law enforcement. No judges, no search >>> warrants. Just someone noticing that you've sent an email to someone >>> named Mahmoud. >>> With the Fourth Amendment out of the way, I guess worrying about >>> Apple and Microsoft is pointless. >>> On the other hand, my Treo680 still does a bunch of stuff that's >>> important to me, that no other device does. >>> Oh, well. >>> >> Well, at the end of the day, you (all) put him there (a second time!). > > Is anyone really surprised? This is simply more of the same actions > eroding the > Constitution! AND NO ONE SEEMS UPSET!
<grovel alert> Can I apologise to all you guys for posting a slightly `flippant` remark about US (AND UK) politics and then going away for a long weekend with my family rollercoasting!!!!!! :-) I came back to about 200 posts that I had set rolling! I`m glad to see that it was a civilised discussion which hopefully let of a little steam for some of you WITHOUT becoming a flamewar! I`m glad that this group is so civilised. :-) OK, to get back to my original comment:- "Well, at the end of the day, you (all) put him there (a second time!)." The point I was making was originally made by a wise philosopher many years ago was that a country gets the government it DESERVES (and this applies to us in the UK just as much as you USAns). Basically `Fool me once - shame on you, fool me twice - then shame on ME`. (I can`t remember just how Dubya `mangled` this quote - just that he did, massively!). OK,END of OT folks! :-) </grovel alert> Oh! Just look at my random tagline generator at work!!!! :-) :-) -- Tony Cooke http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/tonyandgillcooke/ A hundred thousand lemmings can't all be wrong.
