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Date: 2000-05-23
Ueberwachung durch die legislative Hintertuer-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- bekämpfen oder Derfraudanten an ihrem schädlichen Wirken hindern sollen, merkwürdig dunkel formulierte Paragrafen hängen - dann tun sie nur, was ihre Kollegen in Europa ebenfalls gerade tun. Was die lauschgierigen Behörden an gesetzlichen Ermächtigungen nicht auf dem direkten Weg erreichen, das kriegen sie auf diese Weise zugeschanzt. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- THE uproar was fierce but quick last summer when an internal Clinton administration document leaked out, revealing yet again the administration's hostility to fundamental liberties. The idea was to give law enforcement the authority to secretly break into people's homes and businesses to conduct searches, including discovering what was on computer hard disks or even plant rogue programs on the machines to record keystrokes or transmit data to the government. ... Like burglars in the dead of night, they've quietly attached the proposal to several pieces of legislation, including an utterly unrelated bankruptcy reform act. Like masters of deception, they've hidden it in language that no lay person could possibly unravel. ``We've never had a hearing on these provisions,'' says U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., a vocal opponent of what are being called the ``secret search'' portions of the legislation. ``They're very, very substantive, and they're being snuck into legislation without a chance to have light shed on them.'' It's happened before. In 1998, Congress passed a law that included a provision greatly expanding law enforcement's wiretapping authority -- a provision that lawmakers had explicitly rejected when it stood on its own. ... That obscure language, according to experts who've studied it, would dramatically expand the government's authority to conduct what are called ``sneak and peek'' searches. The government ``could enter your house, apartment or office with a search warrant when you are away, conduct a search, seize or copy things such as your computer hard drive and not tell you until months later,'' the American Civil Liberties Union and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers recently wrote in a letter to members of Congress. ... The bankruptcy bill's offensive provisions, passed by the Senate with no debate, appear to be identical to language in the ``Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act'' (HR 2987), an anti-drug bill designed to go after people who operate laboratories that manufacture speed. ... In a triumph of vagueness, the bills would ban direct or indirect advertising of drug paraphernalia and illegal drugs. You wouldn't be allowed even to post mere hyperlinks to sites containing information the government didn't like. ... In the anti-drug bill, Internet service providers would be required to remove allegedly offending materials at government request. Forget due process, and who cares about that pesky First Amendment, anyway? ... Since the bankruptcy bill is in conference committee, it's fairly close to final passage. Call your U.S. representative and senators and demand that they call on the conferees to leave the Bill of Rights alone. The Senate has already passed the methamphetamine bill. The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to look closely at it on Wednesday, says Barr, who intends to try to strip out the big-brotherish language. .... Full Text http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg052300.htm -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 2000-05-23 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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