On Saturday, October 13, 2001, at 07:37 AM, Declan McCullagh wrote:
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47549,00.html
House Endorses Snoop Bill By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com) 2:00 a.m. Oct. 13, 2001 PDT Democrats were the most strident critics of that decision. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) said: "What we have today is an outrageous procedure: A bill, drafted by a handful of people in secret, comes to us without a committee review and immune to amendment."
But this is the way the best police states are established: quickly, out of the light of day, and with muted dissent. It's what many of my friends have been hoping for. Only a complete fascist takeover can trigger the eventual collapse. --Tim May "You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expect them to obey the law because they know that if they don't, those who aren't shot will be hanged." - -Michael Shirley