At 10:42 AM -0700 10/24/98, Eric Cordian wrote:
Here's an interesting civil forfeiture story. Feds catch a guy downloading naughty child pictures in a multinational raid, and immediately file to seize his house. Guy commits suicide.
Feds say that civil forfeiture of homes where improper downloading takes place is a wonderful new weapon in the WarOnSomeThoughts(tm), and that they plan to do a lot more of it in the future.
What else should the sheeple expect? They've let the cops and narcs expand their power for the past several decades. Thoughtcrime means your house gets taken away...why didn't Orwell think of it? (Before anyone claims that downloading certain images may be more than thoughtcrime, bear in mind that the age of consent may be different in other countries and that the antichildporn laws cover cartoons, synthetic images, and images or representations or even stories...even where no real human being is used as a model.) Thoughtcrime. --Tim May Y2K: A good chance to reformat America's hard drive and empty the trash. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.