Secret Court Ok's Wiretapping Powers

i think until some concerned party develops an "anti-terrorist spray" or "anti-terrorist protective suit" or a new and improved "anti-terrorist magic 8 ball there may need to be another solution (even if only temporary)

*shaking Magic 8 Ball furiously*
"will a plane be hijacked today?"....
"maybe so" says the Magic 8 Ball

all great products of course for which we can all readily use to protect ourselves, without having to resort to real surveillence to indentify, follow, pursue and capture terrorists.

people can easily buy disposable phones which cant be traced
people can easily encrypt messages and communicate anonymously
people can easily hide behind off shore companies to finance activities and move money.


people can easily do 1,000,000 things to evade and elude authorities and continue to plan to kill innocent people and blow shit up, buy Nukes on the Internet, wire money to finance people or just talk about a good old fashioned Jihad and which infidels to kill next (of course Jonboy is working steadfastly on that last one for us).

people dont stop to consider that "protecting everyones rights" to such a high degree is what makes this possible. Until people understand there must be a balance between civil rights and security, there will not be much of either.

you cant have the best of both worlds and expect to be safe. you cant say "i expect the government to know everything about the bad guys... but never have the ability to know anything about me" It cant work that way.

of course, the criticism and fear mongering is the easy part... i never hear any solutions to go along with the criticisms and doom and gloom about the end of America as we know it.



Last edited by -= JR =- at Nov 19 2002, 06:48 AM