11 Sep
2001
11 Sep
'01
3:31 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Arthur E. Clark wrote:
Drugs." The congressional reaction to the
Oklahoma City bombing of
the Murrah federal building produced new federal laws greatly
expanding the power of the FBI and other federal law enforcement
agencies to surveil and infiltrate organizations they wish to
investigate, even if the organization in question cannot be connected
with criminal activity. The same opportunists who capitalized on that
tragedy will not doubt try to do the same with this one.
Unfortunately, they will probably succeed.
Yes, and a lot of good those enhanced powers given to the FBI did us
today.
I wish more people would pay attention to history. I would hope that all
of use here, being amateur historians, will do just that (in all aspects
of our lives).
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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