As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Attorney General Michael Mukasey has agreed to allow Congressional hearings, but not to delay, the implementation of new FBI regulations that would allow them to spy on American citizens who are not suspected of any crime. As an editorial in the New York Times points out, this is a power that has a history of abuse. In times past, it was used to wiretap Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to spy on other civil rights and anti-war protesters." As Dekortage points out, "Several senators have formally complained that citizens could be investigated 'without any basis for suspicion,' which the Justice Department denies."

Big Deal?

[EmbeddedJanitor]

Is investigation without a warrant such a big deal? All it does is save some paperwork which is pretty much a rubber stamping exercise anyway. For the FBI to put manpower into investigating someone means they must suspect something and they'd pretty easily get a warrant anyway.

Re:WWJD

[jollyreaper]

I think if you told Thomas Jefferson that the United States would be up to this sort of thing, someone would have gotten a musket ball to the chest.

I think his reaction would have been more along the lines of "Goodness, what is that peculiar blue box you stepped out of?"

Re:Fascist America, in 10 easy steps

[commandlinegamer]

[quote]my source is Roger Moore[/quote] You've got the inside scoop from James Bond ?!

Re:WWJD

[Anonymous Coward]

Retardis.

Re:We should start encrypting everything

[furball]

I am a criminal. That's why I use encryption. Same reason I have a gun.

Re:We should start encrypting everything

[Ortega-Starfire]

Criminals of the USA unite! All we have to lose are our freedoms. Wait, we lost those already. Unite!

Guns, check
Knives, check
Crypto, check
Copy of constitution and laminated ten command- er amendments, check
Internet connection, check

Go! Go! Go!

Am I missing anything?

Oh yes:

Law abiding citizens of the USA unite! All we have to lose are our freedoms. Wait, we lost those already. Unite!

Guns, check
Knives, check
Crypto, check
Copy of constitution and laminated ten command- er amendments, check
Internet connection, check

Go! Go! Go!

Am I missing anything?

Re:We should start encrypting everything

[bill_mcgonigle]

We should start encrypting all our data, no matter how "unsuspicious" or "ordinary" it may be.

|Y8N oxLk- K7)m91= EVq:P !8/| yYS#O tue|# 7EmO pH=V kh8c
7m(C PP}Q| ;j1b 6`@| $|{HolY -#v[1
=q`ltEO ~%srt HGW1S

Re:WWJD

[Palshife]

He's an American. He'd ask about the DeLorean ;)

Re:And what are us Americans going to do about it?

[samcan]

A secession would be fun.

Ob. Bash

[Anonymous Coward]

Stormrider: I should bomb something
Stormrider: ...and it's off the cuff remarks like that that are the reason I don't log chats
Stormrider: Just in case the FBI ever needs anything on me
Elzie_Ann: I'm sure they can just get it from someone who DOES log chats.
*** FBI has joined #gamecubecafe
FBI: We saw it anyway.
*** FBI has quit IRC (Quit: )

Re:And what are us Americans going to do about it?

[linhares]

Nothing.

That's right, nothing.

No one will do a single thing about it as long as they can watch their TV shows.

I have 8 things I would like to bring up:

FIRST and FOREMOST, this is highly against both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution. Second,

Oh shit Ugly betty is on!

Re:We should start encrypting everything

[againjj]

We're sorry, you're going to have to come with us.

The FBI

Re:We should start encrypting everything

[Sponge Bath]

asWay ourYay ayDay

I'm sorry sir, that name is on the do not fly list.
If you feel this is an error, feel free to petition the DHS.

FBI need MORE power

[partowel]

Warning : extreme sarcasm

The FBI need MORE power.

Investigations without a warrant or/and probable
cause isn't enough.

This is the FBI need to do their job.

1. Absolute immunity from every law ever made.

2. Absolute power to do anything they want.

3. Absolute power to incarcerate anyone, forever.

4. Absolute power to kill anyone, with NO
consequences.

5. Absolute power to rape anyone, with NO consequences.

6. Absolute power to seize anyone or/and anything that they want.

7. FBI don't need to pay taxes anymore.

8. FBI gets free cars, free houses, free sex,
free HDTV, free OC-10 Internet connections, etc.
The FBI deserve FREE everything.

9. FBI have absolute power to make any new law they want to create.

10. FBI have absolute power to erase any law they want to destroy.

NOW the FBI can do their job.

Everyone must support the FBI's NEW powers.

EVERYONE.

No one in the USA will stop the FBI.

NO ONE!

Welcome to the POLICE state of the USA.

ALL americans just love to give away their
civil rights and freedoms to the FBI.

Liberty? Who needs that.

Re:That sucks D:

[BronsCon]

Yes, it does. Now we only have until October to organize and take back our country.

Time to stock up on ammo, my friends. :)