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Originally Posted by Kadath
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I wonder if Halx will be forced to turn over your personal information to the government. Which really only proves your point, I guess. Anyway, I feel like we aren't being oppressed enough to make people get off their asses for a revolution. Maybe if someone took away our guns or increased our taxes or turned off the TV.
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Halx is restricted by the new Bush regime laws from notifying anyone who
posts here, or is a member, that a request for information about a member has
been made to him by our government. I recall that the ACLU is currently
contesting this affront to our bill of rights in a case called "John Doe v. Ashcroft"
<a href="http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=416">John Doe is prohibited by law from revealing his identity to the public, even as he confronts the federal government over the very section of the Patriot Act that forces him to remain anonymous.</a> "John Doe" owns a small ISP that
received a request from federal investigators for information about one of
his customers. He and (this applies also to Halx) is prohibited from revealing
that the government made a request for information, making it difficult to
fille a lawsuit in objection.
Since Halx is prohibited from alerting us to any intrusion on this site by
government investigators (and you can assume that a thread like this one
will be at least passively monitored), I've wondered, if he decided to shut this
website down abruptly to protect himself and his forum membership from
further risk of privacy invasion from our own government "thought police",
if the occupying powers would coerce him into continuing to "operate as
usual" so that they can pursue their investigation of the forum membership,
or wrest control of the forums from him and.......hmmm......maybe they
already have........(librarians have refused to cooperate in providing titles
of books that their customers take out on loan, to the government.)
I don't see how so many seem to have no problem with these new affronts
to our formerly guaranteed liberties and rights!