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RE: Things you can't take pictures of in public


From: "Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:34:42 -0500

So tell me Larry - which statutes, exactly, said it was legal and not
abusive when the FBI hassled Martin Luther King Jr, and tapped his phones,
and all that other stuff they did? 

So we shouldn't have an FBI? Obviously these things are balancing acts, and
we've already suggested elsewhere in this thread how outside monitoring is
possible.

You see, Larry, neither a wiretap nor a camera has any moral sense of its
own. They can't tell if they're being used for illegal purposes.  

Wow, that's like really deep dude. And I guess guns don't know who they're
shooting so police shouldn't have guns. And jails can hold innocent people
so we shouldn't hold criminals in them either. 

This is what your argument sounds like to me. 


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