{"id":401,"date":"2003-02-28T13:19:37","date_gmt":"2003-02-28T18:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2003-02-28T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2003-02-28T18:19:37","slug":"seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realize the protection<\/a> of copyright is somewhat important.  Though it is not orange alert stuff, it is still significant.  But in America, if you are rich<\/a> and don’t need a tenth of what you possess, then your right to continued amassment of wealth will enjoy the protection of the US Justice Department, and other Federal lackeys, who once were not the errand boys of the entitled, but the servants of the People.  If you are not rich and powerful, and connected, then you can wail and moan, and though you are right<\/a>, you not only won’t win, you also won’t get any assistance from Federal law enforcement.  <\/p>\n

Isn’t seizing a website<\/a> a little heavy handed?  And doesn’t anyone else sense in this excessive action the attempt to terrorize free-thinking and free-speaking people?  I don’t even know the details of the case, and I never visited the site before it was seized, but these actions by the Justice Department are theatrical, and that scares me.  Why not just pull the plug on the servers, and be done with it?  Unless of course you want to ‘send a message<\/i>‘ to intimidate us uppity website owners and discourage not only unlawful activity, but unwelcome discourse as well.  John Ashcroft, in great discord with the freedoms he is charged to defend, has done much to discourage free speech.  Personally, I think he views that as no small dividend of this action.  I reserve no greater contempt than that which I hold for those who act unlawfully under color of authority.  <\/p>\n

I would today wear the disapproval of John Ashcroft as a badge of honor, and it is tragic that I am compelled to say that of the Attorney General of the United States.  <\/p>\n

There is a division of power between the governed and their government.  It is an intimate and delicate interface between the freedoms and responsibilities of the individual and those of the state.  In a perfect union, the state serves to preserve the individual’s ‘life, liberty, and pursuit of hapiness’.  But even a perfect union between the people and the state is only a marriage of convenience which must be abandoned when its benefits no longer justify its burden.  Recent events seem as harbingers to tell us that the once noble state has become an historic artifact.  Even abusive cops<\/a> will likely find a warm place in the halls of the By Nicole Chardenet’,CAPTION,’thevoicenews.com’);” onmouseout=”return nd();”>hidden breasts<\/a> of Lady Justice.  <\/p>\n

Seek not that which sustains.  Seek instead that which destroys—and stay behind it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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