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["Christian Stalberg" <cpsr_rtp AT internet-lab.com>]

Educate yourself, visit http://www.rtp.nc.us/patriot.htm


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Dasher" <jdasher AT ibiblio.org>
To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/";
<internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Re: Raleigh City Council USA PATRIOT
ActResolution Update


>
> On Tuesday, Mar 9, 2004, at 16:34 US/Eastern, Christian Stalberg wrote:
>
> > see http://www.bordc.org
> >
> > To date seven local governments in North Carolina have passed USA
> > PATRIOT
> > Act resolutions, including Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Davidson, Durham,
> > Durham
> > County, Greensboro, and Orange County.
>
> Why did they pass these resolutions?
>
> Yes, yes, the PATRIOT Act reduces our freedoms and consigns us all to
> miserable servitude under the auspices of the Great Leader and his
> Revolutionary Cadre.
>
> Neo-commie sarcasm aside, what does the Act do besides allow the things
> the FBI and others have been doing legally for decades - wiretaps, etc.
> - to take place in a post-AT&T-break-up world?  (That would be 1984,
> the year communications fragmentation and proliferation got the chance
> to take root and blossom.)
>
> Library records?  Though the power to search them is there, I am not
> aware of a single instance in which the power has been used.  Similarly
> with other provisions that heralded the demise of the republic (though
> the roving wiretaps and other things have, I understand, been used).
>
> I don't like wiretaps or other infringements on my privacy, either.
> But we don't really have a right to privacy - else things like
> environmental regulations, civil rights legislation, income
> redistribution programs, etc., couldn't take place or be enforced.
>
> Anyone?  Anyone?  Bueller?  (To revisit a recent joke....)
>
> Regards -
>
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