no good deed ever goes unpunished

[Philip Stortz <madscientist () wyoming com>]

all on this list should read the following article, and carefully consider the consequences and stupidity of current 
law and law enforcement, and how quickly those in power abuse their power to strike back at those who point out their 
flaws, however well intentioned.  this is scary, the lawmakers and courts clearly need to be educated, or stop trying 
to regulate what they don't understand.  and people with vulnerable systems should be punished, not those who warn 
them.  geez, am i breaking the law by blocking ad servers and internet trackers?  
<http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/theregister.co.uk/sechome;area=sechome;tile=1;sz=336x280;ord=123456789?>  how about 
when i edit the html request string by changing the number of items to display on ebay?  it saves me and them time, but 
of course i am modifying how data is presented.  also note the wonderful gestapo tactics employed by the fbi and 
others, not to mention the "no knock warrant", something i find offensive as an america!
 n, if you wake me from sleep in the middle of the night and are hostile, how am i supposed to know if you really are 
the police and why shouldn't i shoot you down?  such things have happened.  

giving up rights does not increase security, it simply facilitates the ability of others to arbitrarily violate your 
security on a whim simply because you've embarrassed them by exposing the stupidity of their conclusions or opposing 
their views effectively.  activist of all sorts in the u.s. are already being harassed, if you don't care now, there 
may be no one left to care when they come for you.  it has happened before, and it can happen here, the fastest way to 
make it happen is by being foolish enough to believe "it can't happen here", in new jersey, marshal law is 
automatically declared if the "terrorist threat level" goes to red, no civil liberties, no liability for the jack 
booted thugs with their sub machine guns and snipers, no one to sue when a tank drives over your car instead of going 
around it.....  it's a slippery slope, any downward movement is likely to turn into an out of control tumble down hill 
and severe injury or death, it's time to climb back up folks.!
   for the "rule of law" to have any meaning, it must apply above all to those charged with it's enforcement and too 
often privileged and protected from even the most obvious and severe abuses.  just ask that intel programmer, if any 
one ever sees him again....

-- 
philip stortz -- To be nobody but yourself when the whole world is trying its best night and day to make you everybody 
else is to fight the hardest battle any human being will ever fight. -- ee cummings
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