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Re: FBI sought approval to use spyware against terror suspects

____/ [H]omer on Monday 11 February 2008 10:26 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Martha Adams spake thusly:
> 
>> Using spyware against terror suspects seems innocuous and appropriate
>> enough, at first glance.  However.  I just Googled on 'Merton peace
>> terrorists' to find one of those things about slippery words, and the
>> slippery people who use them.  It's about the Merton Center, a few
>> years back.  It seems they were classified as terrorists, because
>> they were "...a left-wing organization advocating, among many
>> political causes, pacifism."
> 
> Exactly. Once one allows the government to arbitrarily redefine the
> meaning of "terrorist" for their own purposes, then no one is safe.
> "Terrorist" is the new "Communist". It's HUAC hysteria all over again.
                          ^^^^^^^^^

/s/government/Microsoft/ 

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