On 9/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Samantha Atkins</b> <<a href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">sjatkins@mac.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is way beyond the usual crap though. This is taking off the<br>gloves and exposing naked tyrannical power over all of us. Bit by<br>bit they have worn us down until now they can come out with something<br>this over the top egregious and most of us just say that we can't be
<br>bothered to do much more than send a bit of email.<br>
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Yeah. I was expecting small erosions like the prison for spammers law I
was ranting about recently, things governments can get away with
because people go "well, that only applies to [disliked group] so the
rest of us are okay". I wasn't expecting something as blatant as openly
overturning core principles of civil rights, not this decade at least.<br>