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Zimbabwe passes eavesdrop law
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Posted on 08/03/2007 1:36:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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How to destroy a once prosperous nation?
Look under Mugabe ..
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe gives a speech in Harare, March 2007. Mugabe has signed into law a bill allowing the state to eavesdrop on private phone conversations and monitor faxes and emails.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)
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posted on
08/03/2007 1:39:47 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Welcome to FR. The Virtual Boot Camp for 'infidels' in waiting)
To: NormsRevenge
They need the ACLU............they can have ours...........
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posted on
08/03/2007 1:45:02 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(All I know about Minnesota, I learned from Garrison Keilor.............)
To: NormsRevenge
all 14 people who have access to such services should be very careful.
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posted on
08/03/2007 1:46:46 PM PDT
by
utherdoul
To: NormsRevenge
Internet service provider? I thought all the IT people in that country had already been eaten.
To: Red Badger
They need the ACLU............they can have ours
—
That’s what I and the world like about America.
We are so generous. (Good idea, btw)
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posted on
08/03/2007 1:50:02 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Welcome to FR. The Virtual Boot Camp for 'infidels' in waiting)
To: NormsRevenge
Hey, if it helps prevent terrorism...
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posted on
08/03/2007 1:50:22 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: NormsRevenge
The government defended the new law saying it was necessary to protect the country from international terrorism and espionage. Looks like a scrappleface quote.
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posted on
08/03/2007 1:50:43 PM PDT
by
rocksblues
(Just enforce the law!)
To: NormsRevenge
The problems is, the ACLU would probably agree with THEIR government..........
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posted on
08/03/2007 1:51:57 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(All I know about Minnesota, I learned from Garrison Keilor.............)
To: NormsRevenge
Damn, now I’ll have to reorganize the pool for my Yahoo College Pick ‘Em season.
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posted on
08/03/2007 1:54:30 PM PDT
by
Crawdad
(I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
To: NormsRevenge
As much as my heart goes out to the poor souls who are the citizens of Zimbabwe, you have to laugh as these new measures roll off the Marxist New Law De Jour Production Line. It is all so predictable. John Galt saw it all coming 50 years ago. Time passes. Nothing really changes. Socialists never learn.
My view: Zimbabwe will have to choose between revolution and starvation. I'm not betting which way it will go. Probably a lot of both.
To: NormsRevenge
I am amazed to find out that they still have phone service.
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posted on
08/03/2007 2:12:16 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
To: NormsRevenge
The Interception of Communication Act
They didn't mince words with the title did they?
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posted on
08/03/2007 2:16:09 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: kinoxi
The Interception of Communication Act
They didn't mince words with the title did they?
The US Congress would call it something like:
The Privacy Act of 2007: A Bill to Protect Soft Fluffy Puppies.
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posted on
08/03/2007 2:47:42 PM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
To: NormsRevenge
The law also compels internet service providers to install equipment to facilitate interception "at all times or when so required" and ensure that its equipment allows full-time monitoring of communications. This has been required in the US for a long time.
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posted on
08/03/2007 2:59:25 PM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
To: NormsRevenge
Did American and Western European IT corporations sell the technology to the Zimbabwe government like what happened in Iran?
Inquiries should be made.
To: AdamSelene235
The US Congress would call it something like:
The Privacy Act of 2007: A Bill to Protect Soft Fluffy Puppies.
Close - replace "Soft Fluffy Puppies" with "Children". There are plenty of politicians who'd love to be able to proclaim such laws as what's passing through Zimbabwe right now.
To: NormsRevenge; Abram; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; amchugh; ...
"The government defended the new law saying it was necessary to protect the country from international terrorism and espionage."
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.
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posted on
08/05/2007 11:20:20 AM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
To: NormsRevenge
The government defended the new law saying it was necessary to protect the country from international terrorism and espionage. Hmm, something about this sounds familiar. Oh, yeah - "Bush describes the effort as an anti-terrorist program, but the bill is not limited to terror suspects and could have wider applications, some lawmakers said."
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posted on
08/05/2007 11:56:02 AM PDT
by
JTN
("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
To: traviskicks
>>”The government defended the new law saying it was necessary to protect the country from international terrorism and espionage.”<<
The problem is this is exactly what you say when its true but also exactly what you say when its an excuse for a power grab. Either way its an invitation to abuse so...
If its for real reasons its key to keep checks and balances in place.
And that is our concern about our government. I have not doubt the threat is real and the solution is sincerely directed at meeting that threat. I’m concerned about the inevitable tendency to mission creep into abuse and the removal of checks and balances.
Not because I think this government is going to come get me in the night - its because this is too much power to give to future Presidents. The unitary executive is too much like a king and not enough like an American President should be.
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posted on
08/05/2007 1:01:17 PM PDT
by
gondramB
(Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words)
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