wondering everyones thoughts on this Options

[UNDEAD 1]

im split on this one,something tells me our gov will take advantage of this down the road.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071218/pl_nm/...u9leqt1OD0E1vAI

[T/A6Pak]

Wow, that is scary.. Interception of telecommunications without a warrant!! This means that any communication you have has a chance to be intercepted. I'm not up to date on all the facts on this bill. But I know in Canada, we need a warrant. If you have enough solid information, a warrant is easy to get. Why are these communication compainies doing the spying.. that should be done by intelligence units.

Watch what you say, big brother is listening!!

[Cpt. Snot Rocket]

Must be nice being Canadian and not a target of international terrorist conspiracies hell bent on the destruction of your country and people. Yes, I know there are terrorist in Canada, but you have to admit that Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, and others, are not screaming for the destruction of Canada.



Warrants are often too little too late when trying to root out terrorist cells within ones borders. These actions are consistant when a country is at war. Similar things where done by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and as well as during WWI and WWII. The US government does not have an unlimited capacity to record and investigate every single person electronic/phone messaging. They are focused on known or suspected terrorist activities/people.



Am I wholy confortable about this, no. I am certainly concerned about its use. But, I realize we are at war with an enemy that is in hiding. The US has not had a attack on our soil since 9/11, but there have been over 200 plots stopped partly because of the efforts to monitor messages.



When a nuclear bomb goes off in New York, the last thing anyone will care about is that the goverment was monitoring messages without a warrant. In fact, the public will demand that they should have done more to stop the plot. And you know I'm right.



Let's say that Hellfighter was calling his drug runner in Florida arranging the next shipment of heroin. The US goverment, picks up on this. However, they cannot make an arrest of anyone, because the evidence would not have been obtained properly. Now, of course, they would be on too Hellfighter and his supplier and may begin to follow him and get further warrant's, ect., and then make an arrest based on the new evidence. Hellfighter would argue that it is unfair that the goverment knew about his drug dealing. But Hellfighter should not being doing illegal activities anyway. So I could care less.



Regardless, I feel it is important that the telecommincations companies be freely able to work with the goverment during times of war without penalties of "civil rights" lawsuits. If not, how are we ever going to monitor terrorists? How are we going to stop the next 9/11?