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David B. Spradlin wrote:
> 
> Since this is a FREE country, let me just clarify my opinion on this thread.
> 
> 1.)  I do not object to anyone posting a message looking for someone else,
> whether the poster is a government employee, wife, child, etc.  If one of
> my loved ones was missing, I would go to great lengths to try to find
> them, and posting a message on the internet is as good a way to get the
> word out as any.  If you don't like "missing person" messages, don't read
> them.

I have to say here that while I find the concept of cops breaking into UseNews
to post missing persons reports, especially in regional-discussion newsgroups,
to be rather annoying - let me simply say that we have no idea whether or not
that message actually came from a cop. It could have easily been a
bail-bondsman, a stalking serial killer with the bucks for a 800 number and a
reddirect, a debt-collector or some other sleazy weasel.

There's enough amateur sleuths and busybodies on the net, and Wanted Web Pages
would be a more appropriate place to post wanted posters.

> 
> 2.)  To the average citizen, the chance of having your civil rights
> violated is a far greater risk from a criminal than from the "police."  I
> personally do not worry about the police, because I have no reason to
> worry about them violating my civil rights.  The chances of being a victim
> of crime are about a million times higher than being a victim of the
> police.

Depends on whether you call traffic fines victimization or not <grin>.

> 
> 3.)  If police have to monitor the internet to stop crime, so be it.  Why
> would you want criminals to commit crimes on the internet without fear of
> being caught?

what brought this stupid quesiton on? Of course nobody wants to abandon the
internet to crminals, or have crime run amok lead to internet regulation.

> 
> 4.)  NO, I do not support regulation of the internet, never have, and
> never will.
> 
> 5.)  Don't be so paranoid.  Unless you are doing something illegal, you
> have a better chance of winning the lottery than you do of having the
> government monitor your internet communications.

Wrongo. The government monitors _everything_ on the internet. But most things
don't trip the programs that rings bells and whistles and attract the attention
of a real human person who might then decide to focus on you in particular.


> 
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