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Re: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:23:02 -0500 (CDT)
I don't suggest a riot. I do believe in the rule of law, as a member of a democracy I need to accept that I will not always agree with the laws that are enacted.
Well that's all nice and all, but what you're missing here is that this has very little to do with "laws that are enacted". When an author of the PATRIOT Act is filing amicus briefs indicating that the collection of data being done is not what Congress intended, and when the intelligence community is busy subverting the common definitions of words so that they can bend a law that says one thing when read in plain language but something very different when they use their own private definitions, then we're pretty far outside the scope of "law." We've been hearing for some years now that the way in which the PATRIOT Act has been interpreted was alarmingly expansive. If you choose to start redefining words, you can probably find a way to make the Constitution say "every child has a right to a puppy." Doesn't actually mean that it actually says that though. Feingold must be having such an "I told you so" moment. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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