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To: E. Pluribus Unum
As a "Federal terrorism offense," the five year statute of limitations for hacking would be abolished retroactively -- allowing computer crimes committed decades ago to be prosecuted today...

Isn't there a little thing called the Constitution of the United States of America that contains a clause prohibiting the creation of ipso facto laws. It has always been my understanding that changing the wording of a law in any way basically creates a new law, and if hopping on one leg was legal yesterday and illegal today, I couldn't be prosecuted on evidence that I hopped on one leg in the past, even if the statute of limitations for hopping on one leg were unlimited. A statute of limitations, cannot go back to before the day a law was enacted. A$#croft is really outdoing himself for striking while the iron is hot to usurp our civil liberties. It almost makes me miss Janet Reno...
What's next, will jaywalking be classified as "deliberate obstruction of mass transit" and punishable by life in prision?

13 posted on 09/24/2001 3:42:49 PM PDT by BigOrra
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To: BigOrra
YEEEEEOWCH (AT #13)! It's EX POST FACTO. Written right there. Read that Consitution again. Sounds like the Justice Department could use that exercize, too.
38 posted on 09/24/2001 4:27:31 PM PDT by frodolives
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To: BigOrra
Small correction: thats ex post facto laws and I'm sure the USSC would strike down that provision as soon as someone challenged it.
75 posted on 09/24/2001 7:54:15 PM PDT by clee1
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To: BigOrra
prohibiting the creation of ipso facto laws.

LOL

"Ex post facto" maybe?

Seems like the First Rapist demolished that concept when his first act as president was a huge tax applied retroactively.

And idiot America slept right through it...

93 posted on 09/26/2001 6:47:26 AM PDT by Publius6961
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