CDR: Re: Bomb info and the terminally stupid (was: Survey meters)

Jim Choate ravage at EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Wed Nov 29 16:10:00 PST 2000


On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Alan Olsen wrote:

> Whoever said that law enforcement officials actually had a clue as to what
> the law said anyways?  All you have to do it get an emotional issue like
> "bombs" or "kid porn" (or anything else that gets the average person's
> brain to stop thinking rationally) and add "the Internet" to it and you
> have a "means-of-promotion" case for some publicity seaking DA.  Then,
> when it gets let go because of lack of illegality, you have yet another
> group of publicity hounds screaming "There Ought To Be A Law!".  The press
> will report it because it is emotional and it scares people. (That is
> what local and national news ratings are based on.)  It will then be
> repeated with the next case when the previous one fails to get the proper
> emotional support.
> 
> People are easily lead into tirrany when they allow themselves to be lead
> by people exploiting their emotions and their hatred of others.

Which is only one more reason to honor the requests for bomb info (never
mind the 1st or 2nd).

There are no angels among men.

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