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House Democrat joins Bush administration in supporting a mandate that Net firms store records about consumers' activities.
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More Laws + More Taxes = Less Freedom. Vote Libertarian.
More Laws + More Taxes = Less Freedom. Vote Libertarian.
Next November you have a chance to get rid of these idiots once and for all.
My own position is clear, if they're an incumbant politician they must go.
Spying on everyone because someone might be bad is the mark of this country's final move to a communist state.
Wait for the "if you don't have anything to hide, you don't have anything to fear" rubbish from idiots that support the criminals posing as representatives of the people.
The counter argument is simple. There is no guarantee of accuracy in any law enforcement database, in fact there is evidence of huge numbers of errors. These errors are life destroying. Incorrectly associating horrendous crimes with entirely innocent people, and because the lists are "flawless" and the systems "can never go wrong", when an error is found, the fight to get it removed is often futile, and in the best cases last years.
An example - 28,000 American citizens who have no ties whatsoever to terrorism are included in the no-fly lists. That's the 28,000 we know of. The DHS, a department that supposedly exists to serve the country, refuses to remove any of those names.
This means that 28,000 Americans citizens that try to catch their scheduled flights are forced to wait for background checks, sometimes permanently refused, and then face the same again on any connecting flights - if they're lucky enough to be re-scheduled for one they've missed.
This includes business people who've lost their jobs because they can no longer perform them and thousands of holiday makers that hold letters from the DHS proving they have no ties to terrorism.
So again I ask everyone who can vote to do so to remove every single member of congress. They need to be shown they are not there to make up whatever laws they feel like, for dumb reasons that have no positive outcome. They are there to serve those that voted for them, and if they refuse they should be fired.
The best possible scenario from this is that we will face huge bills to cover the cost of a system that will catch no more criminals than the one we have now. The worst is that thousands of people will be spied on for being the victims of spyware popups and inappropriately accused of crimes they did not commit.
Next November you have a chance to get rid of these idiots once and for all.
My own position is clear, if they're an incumbant politician they must go.
Spying on everyone because someone might be bad is the mark of this country's final move to a communist state.
Wait for the "if you don't have anything to hide, you don't have anything to fear" rubbish from idiots that support the criminals posing as representatives of the people.
The counter argument is simple. There is no guarantee of accuracy in any law enforcement database, in fact there is evidence of huge numbers of errors. These errors are life destroying. Incorrectly associating horrendous crimes with entirely innocent people, and because the lists are "flawless" and the systems "can never go wrong", when an error is found, the fight to get it removed is often futile, and in the best cases last years.
An example - 28,000 American citizens who have no ties whatsoever to terrorism are included in the no-fly lists. That's the 28,000 we know of. The DHS, a department that supposedly exists to serve the country, refuses to remove any of those names.
This means that 28,000 Americans citizens that try to catch their scheduled flights are forced to wait for background checks, sometimes permanently refused, and then face the same again on any connecting flights - if they're lucky enough to be re-scheduled for one they've missed.
This includes business people who've lost their jobs because they can no longer perform them and thousands of holiday makers that hold letters from the DHS proving they have no ties to terrorism.
So again I ask everyone who can vote to do so to remove every single member of congress. They need to be shown they are not there to make up whatever laws they feel like, for dumb reasons that have no positive outcome. They are there to serve those that voted for them, and if they refuse they should be fired.
The best possible scenario from this is that we will face huge bills to cover the cost of a system that will catch no more criminals than the one we have now. The worst is that thousands of people will be spied on for being the victims of spyware popups and inappropriately accused of crimes they did not commit.
Colin Powell's son, as head of the FCC, by fiat all but disemboweled the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Now you want us to support the computer hardware dealers by forcing us to buy servers and hard drives just to keep the e-mail which is now at least 80% spam. So we have to pay for more bandwidth for the Russians to send us spam. (But that's good for the huge telcos which Mr. Powell unleashed.)
I have been a Republican for more than 45 years but I surely am no longer. The most moderate candidate on any ballot I see will get my vote. The Republicans are now the party of big business, corruption and graft. They don't give a squat about small business. We don't have the big bucks to donate, so we don't count any more.
Am I angry??? You bet!!!!!!
- ISP Snooping
- by genealogynut September 8, 2006 6:53 PM PDT
- I have been an ISP for over 10 years now and this government in cahoots with the telcos has done everything in its power to put us all out of business. We are the ones who got the country up and running on the net. 10 years ago or so there were about 8,000 - 10,000 independent ISPs. Today there are fewer than 3,000.
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Showing 3 of 3 pages (72 Comments)Colin Powell's son, as head of the FCC, by fiat all but disemboweled the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Now you want us to support the computer hardware dealers by forcing us to buy servers and hard drives just to keep the e-mail which is now at least 80% spam. So we have to pay for more bandwidth for the Russians to send us spam. (But that's good for the huge telcos which Mr. Powell unleashed.)
I have been a Republican for more than 45 years but I surely am no longer. The most moderate candidate on any ballot I see will get my vote. The Republicans are now the party of big business, corruption and graft. They don't give a squat about small business. We don't have the big bucks to donate, so we don't count any more.
Am I angry??? You bet!!!!!!