New Senate Bill gives warrantless e-mail searches to 22 agencies

[publiusr]

Gov Kodos wrote:

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The Bengazi business shows how far they've come by having an Illumnatus stooge in the White House.

So Reagan should have been impeached over the far worse Beirut barracks bombing, right?

The point is that we don't live in the days of parchment, powdered wigs, and pantaloons anymore. We have 21st century problems. The warrant was a product when lynchings were common. The internet is the street, and plain-clothes cops have always been on streets.

[Robert Maxwell]

publiusr wrote:

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So Reagan should have been impeached over the far worse Beirut barracks bombing, right?

The point is that we don't live in the days of parchment, powdered wigs, and pantaloons anymore. We have 21st century problems. The warrant was a product when lynchings were common. The internet is the street, and plain-clothes cops have always been on streets.

Email is more like a letter sent through the postal service than a bulletin posted in a public square. You might have a point if you were talking about, say, a public website, Tweet, or Facebook profile.

[publiusr]

I don't like th e-mail going outside law-enforcement to a lot of agencies...still, a terror tactic is to not send e-mail at all, just all use the same account.

The Israeli model needs to be adopted:
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/11/21/...fense-pay-off/

[Gov Kodos]

Robert Maxwell wrote:

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Email is more like a letter sent through the postal service than a bulletin posted in a public square. You might have a point if you were talking about, say, a public website, Tweet, or Facebook profile.

Let's bring back Letters of Marque, that will up the ante on those terrorist supporting states.

[Robert Maxwell]

Gov Kodos wrote:

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Let's bring back Letters of Marque, that will up the ante on those terrorist supporting states.

Pssh, you just want to be a privateer, admit it.

[Gov Kodos]

Robert Maxwell wrote:

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Pssh, you just want to be a privateer, admit it.

When I was just a lad looking for my true vocation My father said "Now son, this choice deserves deliberation Though you could be a doctor or perhaps a financier My boy why not consider a more challenging career"

[gturner]

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[Gov Kodos]

gturner wrote:

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Pirate hunting cruises from Dubai tour company

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[Alidar Jarok]

Well, it's always good for sociopaths and serial killers to spend their energy on someone outside of the United States, I suppose. Although it arguably could violate the Neutrality Act if an American participated.

[Gov Kodos]

The date of the article is April 1... which isn't to say I don't love the idea.

[Samuel Walters]

Gov Kodos wrote:

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When I was just a lad looking for my true vocation My father said "Now son, this choice deserves deliberation Though you could be a doctor or perhaps a financier My boy why not consider a more challenging career"

Smart as paint, you are lad! Smart as paint!