Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 1824
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@ ondolette
[Read the article: The administration's FISA falsehoods continue unabated]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Arne, can you explain?
Trap and trace and pen registers, please? The proposed law makes it somewhat automatic that if the FISA judge gives a warrant, they are entitled to have the judge give them an approval of these two to go with it. It's in both the electronic surveillance and the physical search sections.
T&T/PR versus Title III applies to U.S. criminal law enforcement tye things. It's easier (and far more common) to get a T&T/PR; I think I ran into one service provider that had maybe only a couple of Title IIIs in the whole last decade. T&T/PRs make up the vast majority of criminal wiretaps (and emergency location requests [parents looking for kids, etc.], non-criminal, may make up a good half of all requests for CALEA capabilities).
The FISA law doesn't really distinguish between call data and call content (in particular, not only is call content "protected", but also information as to the "identities" of the parties, which would typically be "call data"), so for such taps, there is no such clear distinction, nor any different types of "warrant".
See, e.g., 50 USC § 1801(n):
(n) “Contents”, when used with respect to a communication, includes any information concerning the identity of the parties to such communication or the existence, substance, purport, or meaning of that communication.
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Cheers,
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@ Stoopid242
[Read the article: The Islamic enemy within]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have you conveniently forgotten that atheists killed more people than religionists by a substantial multiple, last century? Stalin and Mao alone evened the score for a large portion of human history. So much for "reason".
Oh, silly me. Yes, I forgot about those hordes marching under the banner of FSMism, carrying shields with big question marks emblazoned on them, and urged on by the rabble-rousing atheist high priests.... How silly of me.
Unfortunately, these atheist proselytisers were thwarted before they could slit Shooter's throat in the name of ... ummm, uhhh, the name of ... uhhh. Nevermind.
Cheers,
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@ Paul Dirks
[Read the article: The Islamic enemy within]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you are among those, willing to condemn such a group to the point of wishing death upon their members, then you share in the evil that the mass-murderers represent.
To quote someone whose name escapes me for some reason or another, "Heh, indeedy."
FWIW, "Sh*t4brains" is one of those, as evidenced by a long paper trail. As Tommy Sands said in his haunting song "There Were Roses":
"Allan was my friend," he cried. He begged them with his fear
But centuries of hatred have ears that do not hear
An eye for an eye, it was all that filled their minds
And another eye for another eye till everyone is blind
See here for full lyrics:
http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiWEREROSE.html
I think that Glenn pretty much summed this state of affairs up in his post. Those like "Sh*t4brains" and "GB" are too blind to see it though.
Cheers,
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@ the GB wanker
[Read the article: The Islamic enemy within]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Paul asks what should be done beyond worrying about it. I'd like to see otherwise intelligent, progressive people face up what Islam really is, and stop pretending that this ideology can be used as a club to attack political opponents.
So stop. Now. Or leave, s'makes no difference to me which you choose. But choose.
Cheers,
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Re; "GB"
[Read the article: Large number of Americans favor violent attacks against civilians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"GB" is a troll, pure and simple. A sociopath that cares nothing about anyone else, or the world in general. It's all about him, nd everyone else be damned. If he wasn't so dishonest, I'd think that no one here would want to foot the bill for his Depends™ bill. But he just wants to stir up trouble. Ignore him, I suggest.
Cheers,
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@ Fauxname
[Read the article: Large number of Americans favor violent attacks against civilians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You forgot one:
"Realname eedjit"
Cheers,
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@ brave "anonymous"
[Read the article: Large number of Americans favor violent attacks against civilians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Try again after a Liberty U grad flies a jetliner into an office building.
I won't even do the 'graduate' "one word, Ben". Three letters is sufficient: "OKC".
As a point of fact, the body count per perp was pretty much the same as the most lethal one by al Qaeda....
Cheers,
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Cap'n: Lack of logic detected....
[Read the article: Large number of Americans favor violent attacks against civilians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][brave Anonymous]: @Iokannan
You write: "Fanaticism is fanaticism, irregardless of what creed it espouses."
Really? Name a Quaker terrorist group. (Irregardless?)
No one said (or implied) that Quakers are fanatic (much less terrorist). The actual logical implication (which seems to ahve escaped you for reasons that are all too obvious) is not that religious people tend to be fanatic, but ather that fanatics tend to be religious.
To help you out, if I said that all oranges are fruit, you would be doing me a disservice to say that I'd been yelling that "all (or even most) fruit are oranges".
HTH. Now FOAD.
Cheers,
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@ anonymous
[Read the article: Large number of Americans favor violent attacks against civilians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're begging the question. Do seven uncoordinated homicides [from anti-abortion wingnuts] over the course of three-going-on-four decades constitute a "campaign"?
Yes. To deny that is to deny the obvious. But your comparison neglects the fact that such a campaign has (for good reason) made people in the United States wear flak jackets to work, where no other profession requires such precautions. You have to look at the expected level of threat in the United States under the circumstances faced by other people just trying to do their job to decide whether Koop, Silva, Rudolph, et al have achieved a terrorist goal. In the United States, being involved (or just suspected of such, or just being mistaken for such by that wingnut that deludedly drove his car into a clinic) with abortion is enouhg to subject you to risks that no other group has to deal with here.
Cheers,
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@ kdwmson
[Read the article: Large number of Americans favor violent attacks against civilians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]RSS looks and talks a lot like the Hitler Youth, upon which they seem to have been modeled, but they are not, so far as anybody knows, involved in terrorism.
Just a curious note: When I was in India (time bfore last), I noted that the swastika was all over. Seems that the "broken cross (set at an angle)" was a long-standing symbol in Hinduism. And it still shows up all over in Hindu temples. Not saying that Hindus are Nazis at all, though; from what I heard, Hitler stole the swasitka from them.....
Cheers,