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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