To: MSWiA (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration) http://www.mswia.gov.pl e-mail: <wp@mswia.gov.pl> street: ul.St Batorego5 02-591 W-wa (Warsaw), Poland, Europe Min Lacznosci (Ministry of Communications) http://www.ml.gov.pl e-mail: <webmaster@ml.gov.pl> (webmaster) e-mail2: <rzecznik@ml.gov.pl> (spokesman) street: ul.Stawki2 00-990 W-wa (Warsaw), Poland, Europe Mr. Lacznosci: I am an experienced Internet user, and I enjoy the ease of communication that international email offers me. As with any of my communications, I like to believe that my messages go to the people I send them to, and not to people I don't. In other words, I believe that no agency or individual should be reading communications that are not addressed to them. Specifically, I am absolutely opposed to any use of wiretapping or surveillance, like the FBI's Carnivore or the EU's Echelon. Governments, specifically, must watch where they tread. Since government officials are paid with taxpayer money, they should be serving the public interest, which should _not_ include witch-hunts. If any government officials of yours has personal emotional problems like insecurity or paranoia, I hope they will be taken care of. We activists have found that when government officials do not deal with their emotional problems well the results can lead to paranoia. When agents become paranoid they begin looking for regular people to foist their own paranoia onto. Please make sure that no one employed by your government has any sort of problems which might cause them to restrict the communications of anyone else. I am certain that if you can address our concerns adequately there will be no need for any further measures on our part. Also, please do not forget that all surveillance projects initiated by governments are carefully monitored by NGOs like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org), the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (http://www.gilc.org) and libertarian organizations, such as Libertarian International (http://www.libertarian.to), Libertarian International Organization (http://www.libertarian.uni.cc), or The International Society for Individual Liberties (http://www.isil.org). Finally, we understand your concerns are in capturing "criminals". I would personally suggest that you take extreme care in deciding what methods are appropriate in your apprehension of "criminals". I'm certain you would not want to do anything that your population would find offensive. Thank you. Sincerely, Chris Kaihatsu Chicago, IL USA 312-789-8073 ckaihatsu@yahoo.com ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt@coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per month) Matthew Gaylor, 2175 Bayfield Drive, Columbus, OH 43229 (614) 313-5722 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************