Posted on 10/18/2006 8:33:53 AM PDT by Dr. Marten
Why not require phone companies to record all conversations, too, just in case the FBI wants to listen to them?
This is one thing that is so egregious that I really would vote out a republican that supported it. Whatever happened to getting a search warrant?
""Terrorists coordinate their plans cloaked in the anonymity of the Internet, as do violent sexual predators prowling chat rooms,""
I'm surprised he didn't find a way to fold the War on Some Drugs into terror and predation. The unholy trio usually appear in tandem when freedom is under GOP attack.
I've been expecting this for a long time based on "protecting the children" or protecting the media companies from music and movie sharing. It will be quite interesting to see the push for ISPs to record everything balanced against the growth of wireless technologies and hacking.
If you don't have anything to hide, you've got nothing to fear.
BTW, has anyone seen my jackboots?
Same here.
The analogy of a frog in boiling water comes to mind.
The US is slowly becoming a police state under the guise of fighting "terrorism" and protecting children.
Soon all the Bush apologists will rally around this story proclaiming him an absolute genius.
Wait, don't forget we have to tell the postal service to make photocopies of all the paper snail mail too, just in case...
Hands up!!!! WHO DIDN'T KNOW that when we get our first female president that the Madam President would have powers to track militias and VRWC "terrorists" over the inter net???
HOLD YOUR HANDS HIGH< PLEASE!!!
Yeah, I want somebody else to do my job, too. Perhaps the FBI could take care of it if they succeed in offloading their own work to ISPs.
Robert Mueller is an idiot. I would vote against anyone that supports this agenda. Too bad its so close to the election to get a handle on where this is going.
innocent until proven guilty?
Unfortunately that's what the donks claim too. The difference is it's all black and white for them and the Constitution (which they don't respect) IS a suicide pact.
This is the FBI camel getting its nose under the tent in the guise of the war on terror and to help the children.
Maybe Mueller should go back to trying to get democrats elected by harrassing Republican Candidates.
What are you, some kind of commie? Patriots have no need for search warrants, only guilty people do. /sarc
Can't they just get all the data from the NSA?
Everyone should be required to wear a GPS ankle bracelet too, 24/7, to keep track of where they go. Sheesh!
From the article:
Privacy groups and industry groups have generally opposed mandatory data retention, with some companies such as Comcast voluntarily agreeing to retain user data for longer periods.Hell, the data storage capabilities required to maintain a list of reasons why Comcast sucks would dwarf anything else out there. The list just got a bit longer....
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