[TriLUG] Sen. Hatch at it again...

Magnus chrish at trilug.org
Fri Jun 20 13:51:46 EDT 2003


On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 07:39 PM, Roy Vestal wrote:

> C.H. - This isn't pointed at you but the gov't. I'm tired of their "We
> are the gov't, bow down because we are in charge" attitude. First, they
> aren't, we the people are. The American people have seem to forgotten
> that they work for us, not the other way around.

The government is not the solution to the problem; the government *is* 
the problem.

But WRT the Hatch plan, it is worse than that.  Hatch is endorsing a 
sort of vigilante justice that completely bypasses the judicial system 
and the government itself.

> It's just wrong. To me, this is worse than the RIAA and DCMA
> bills that we've seen.

This isn't even a bill yet.  The only reason this is big news is 
because of who is floating these ideas.  Hatch is a powerful man, and 
very influential, but I don't know that he would get very far passing 
actual legislation that permitted this.

Then again, some of the other asinine legislation that has been passed 
lately casts all of that into doubt.

Has anyone seen my country lately?  I seem to have misplaced it.




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