Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> When it comes to maintaining the size of government or giving more
> money to police, there is rarely gridlock. Look at the ever-increasing
> FBI budgets, for instance.
>
> If there were a terrorist attack that the FBI says could have been
> prevented by Carnivore, I suspect you'll see what little apparent
> opposition there is now evaporate immediately.
And their claims need not be borne out. Look at the tightening of air
travel regulations following TWA-800 a few years ago. It was almost
immediately declared that the cause _could_ have been a bomb smuggled
on board, and so some additional police-state restrictions were
slapped on. The bomb-on-board theory was shot down (pun intended)
almost immediately, but the restrictions remain.
--
Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel
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