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To: fabrizio

Those so-called “eavesdropping” laws are misguided as hell. If it’s your conversation, recording it in any form isn’t eavesdropping. Absent a confidentiality agreement, you have a right to “rebroadcast” any conversation to which you are privy. These laws just take away a means of memorializing an otherwise voluntary conversation. I’d like to see these laws struck down.


3 posted on 09/26/2009 4:59:02 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
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To: Larry Lucido

I’m more interested in who the lawyers are representing ACORN are and how they are compensated(if it’s the normal split, or a flat fee)


6 posted on 09/26/2009 5:00:52 AM PDT by shadeaud ("If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin)
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To: Larry Lucido
Those so-called “eavesdropping” laws are misguided as hell. If it’s your conversation, recording it in any form isn’t eavesdropping. Absent a confidentiality agreement, you have a right to “rebroadcast” any conversation to which you are privy. These laws just take away a means of memorializing an otherwise voluntary conversation. I’d like to see these laws struck down.

The law itself says interception of electronic communications, so it makes no sense they are applying it to this case. That law makes sense, since you don't want people wiretapping or intercepting your computer communications. But twisting it to make this illegal makes no sense. The way they are twisting it makes all electronic surveillance illegal.

14 posted on 09/26/2009 5:12:19 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama owes Joe Willson an apology!!!)
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To: Larry Lucido
The conversation took place in an open office; the door was not closed, so anyone could walk in and listen, anyone outside the room also could have heard the conversation. Nothing private about the setting.

Oh, and the discovery process will be fun, fun, fun for the defendants' lawyers. I think the lawyers should request every document they can imagine from ACORN; not to mention depose every employee, from the janitor to the administrative personnel, and all the officers of ACORN's national team.

I think ACORN will rue the day they filed against these patriots.

18 posted on 09/26/2009 5:20:49 AM PDT by onemiddleamerican (FUBO)
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To: Larry Lucido

Here’s a recap of the actual law: http://www.rightgrrl.com/tripp/woods.html

As I read it, if you are a party to the communication, consent is implied by both parties, but not by a third party, so you can tape yourself having a conversation, but a third party cannot.


22 posted on 09/26/2009 5:41:41 AM PDT by Aunt Polgara
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