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I will *never* understand liberals…

So there’s this new law that gives, more or less, immunity to telcos for complying with law enforcement data disclosure requests.  For example, if you get arrested for illegal pr0n, you can’t sue Comcast for giving your data to the local constabulary.  Seems logical enough, right?  To anyone with half a brain and/or some common sense, it would be.

Apparently not…the libtard (a portmanteu of liberal and retard, for those who don’t know me too well) on my team at work thinks that he should be able to sue the PD *and* the telco if he gets arrested where due process isn’t followed.  To make things worse, he would seek only punitive damages for the incident, just to screw the telco and the PD out of some money.  This astounds me…he wants to make sure that when he gets arrested, he can blame everybody but himself.  When I argue with him, he calls me a “fascist”, as if it’s a bad thing.  I’d honestly rather a liberal think me a fascist than an intelligent person think me a liberal.  Common sense is fascism to you liberals, isn’t it?

Why do liberals refuse to take personal responsibility for anything? If you’re doing something that could get you arrested, either do it anonymously, or don’t do it.  If you’re not smart enough to commit crimes and not get caught, crime just isn’t for you, bucko, the Burger King (or God forbid — a real job entailing hard work and commensurate rewards) awaits.  If you’re worried about your ISP abusing your data, *don’t* give it to them.  It’s that simple.  Don’t want your boss reading your email? Encrypt it.  Point is, take personal responsibility for yourself and the consequences of your own actions.

Fucking liberals…stop treating the government like your mommy and your meal ticket.  We can’t afford you lazy slackers anymore.  Grow the fuck up.


Posted June 26, 2008 at 9:46 am in rants Permalink
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On 6/26/08 at 6:45 pm, An overzealous law-student-to-be! proclaimed...

While I agree with most of your statements, I must point out that “without due process” means the arrest itself was ILLEGAL. Due process exists for a reason - our dumb criminal is innocent until a judge says otherwise, and it does violate his privacy if the telco hands over ANYTHING about him without his express permission, or without a warrant. If the telco violated his privacy agreement, either because they wanted to alert the authorities or because some cop wasn’t following procedures & some lineworker at the telco just mindlessly bowed to “authority”, and his freedom is taken because of it, damn straight he should get to sue the telco.

Of course, that only works if his contract with the telco didn’t say anything about doing illegal stuff. I believe most contracts state that you can’t do anything illegal with the service provided, so if our dumb criminal was in violation of his contract, the whole agreement is null and void, and the telco is under no obligation to protect his privacy - or anything else. Which means “no suing the telco.”

It’s the same reason you don’t get any legal protection if your drug dealer screws you over, even if you had everything in writing.

You might tell your liberal officemate to brush up on his contract law.

And he still gets to sue the cops for not following procedures & getting a warrant first.



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