On Aug 3, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Charles Bennett wrote: > Everyone ok with this? What invests the government and the > "children's secretary" with the power to do this anyway?
It's honestly hard to tell from the way that the articles are sensationalized. It's precisely the question "What invests the government... with the power to do this anyway? that's unanswered. The implication is that these people are convicted drug abusers and therefore have no civil rights or expectation of privacy but the article doesn't come right out and state it. If that's the case, the treatment these people are getting certainly compares favorably with what repeat offenders receive in the US for even minor infractions. --- Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970) -- It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. -Rollo May _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
