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Wednesday, April 21, 2004
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8:48 PM
by Gerald Klaas
The FBI wants to tap your VoIP.
That would constitute a sweeping expansion of police surveillance powers. Instead of
asking Congress to approve the request, the FBI (along with the Department of Justice
and the Drug Enforcement Administration) are pressing the Federal Communications
Commission to move forward with minimal public input.
Much like the IRS ignores the actual LAW when interpreting a person's taxable income, these three federal bureaucracies ignore that the LAW Congress passed in 1994 specifically did not apply to Internet Service Providers, but hey, what's a little thing like The Law to stand in the way of power-hungry bureaucrats?
Gerald Klaas
I'm trying to follow the ideals of Henry David Thoreau, in his essay On Civil Disobedience. Thoreau refused to cooperate with The Machine of oppressive government and encouraged all moral people to do the same. He referred to this "civil disobedience" as creating friction in the machine. Given enough friction for a long enough period of time, the machine will break.
Courses I teach at the local Community College