This story is unbelievable awful, in terms of the government ignoring and manipulating the legal system.
Lyndon Johnson (someone who knew a fair amount about law-writing and politics and abuse of power) said: "You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."
Read this story, and then remember it when the government says it needs additional powers like in SOPA and PROTECT IP and that you can trust them because, after all, it's the government, and you can trust it never to abuse powers granted to it … #ddtb
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Imagine if the US government, with no notice or warning, raided a small but popular magazine's offices over a Thanksgiving weekend, seized the company's printing presses, and told the world that the m…
Yeah. Scary indeed.