Dragaera

Fw: Fw: the pitfalls of judgmental law enforcement

Fri Jan 9 16:31:45 PST 2004

  What, Laz, you haven't seen the new ads?!?  If you do drugs, you support
terrorism- or you kill your brother or something.  I just kind of threw the
drug thing in at the end.  It really goes for anything.  Here are a few
links about how intrusive the government and LE has become.  I especially
liked the one about the flight simulator.   warbi

http://news.com.com/2100-7352_3-5137344.html?tag=nefd_top

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34776.html

http://www.prisonplanet.com/010804enemycombatants.html


----- Original Message -----
From: "lazarus" <lazarus33pjf at cox.net>
To: <dragaera at dragaera.info>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: the pitfalls of judgmental law enforcement


On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:25:59 -0600, you wrote:

>At 05:24 PM 1/8/04 -0800, warbi wrote:
>>   Entrapment is a major weapon of police these days, just like illegal
>>search and seizure.  There have even been recent movements to do away with
>>the Miranda rights.  If they think drugs are involved, kiss your rights
>>good-bye.
>
>
>To quote Bruce Schneier, "Who ever knew that 'drugs' was the root password
>to the Constitution."

They've changed that, now.  It's all about "terrorism" rather than
drugs.  Granted, drugs is still bad, but terrorism is the big bugaboo
these days.


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laz

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